"Silvie! You're awake!" Rivi's adorable dark-haired face peeked through the opening.
I jolted at the sudden influx of light into the dark shadow box I had been sitting in.
"Rivi!" I blinked. "Hey!"
The shadow box dissolved around me and I found myself back in the ice cave surrounded by luminescent ice pillars reflecting light from a large ball of magic light behind Rivi's shoulder.
"How'd the…butchering go?" I didn't think it had been that long since I entered the box, but man it felt like a long time. Actually…wait…I just evolved. Does that mean it actually has been a long time?
"I finished that ages ago, silly, want to join us? We were just about to have breakfast." She gestures to a grill with several steaks that was set up over a campfire which Rufi was currently staring at hungrily.
"Uhh…" I blinked. "How long was I out?"
