Chapter 627 - Chapter 626

The second Gate was found on the thirty-first day of the investigation, in ice so old that the stone arch at its center had been gripped and polished by glacial movement until the original inscription work blazed with a clarity that the Tekarr arch's centuries of open-air weathering had long since eroded. The Gate of the northern ice fields was the most perfectly preserved of the known secondary sites, which was either the result of its isolation or a sign that whoever had built it had selected the location with the intention of ensuring that the passage of time alone would not be sufficient to compromise what it contained.