Ice elemental

Levant unraveled in an instant, tilting her head at me inquisitively even as Xihai fell into a puddle of already-freezing water. But then the ice forming around me began to ripple and a figure began to rise from it, her shape larger than that of either of her component Elementals, perhaps ten centimeters shorter than me. Her hair was the pure white of freshly fallen snow and the rest of her body transparent and clear as purified ice until frost began to form on the surface like a second layer of skin. She had no eyes that I could see, but a thick, frozen mist rose from the sockets and hide everything but a dim light that seemed to glow from within each.

Water and Air in balance, she looked at me and smiled, revealing rows of neatly arranged icicles instead of teeth.

“Trying the same thing again and again and expecting different results?” I asked Keppel. “You must be insane.”

Keppel made a strange sound, deep in his chest, like wind chimes in a storm—a sound that could only loosely be described as ‘laughter.’ Then, he slithered forward to the sound of ice on ice, moving swiftly especially for something so massive, ice spreading all around him as he drew nearer.

Levant and Xihai’s combined form fell to one knee, hand falling to touch a smooth pane of ice by her feet. There was a ringing sound, like a bell—and abruptly a forest of jagged looking spikes of ice erupting between Keppel and I, growing from every frozen surface in sight. At the same time, snow began to fall around us in an enormous flurry, as if someone had flipped a switch from clear to blizzard. In moments, there was a concealing curtain of snow, drawn from the water I’d produced fighting Carmine, but my Clairvoyance cut through it as if it were still clear as day. And yet, the same should be true of—