Introduction: A man wakes in a frozen wilderness鈥攏ot as himself, but as a creature of claws and hunger. The ice stretches endlessly, the wind howls through jagged peaks, and the only warmth comes from the strange fire coiled beneath his scales.He remembers being human. Remembers cities, voices, a life before the cold. But here, there are no roads. No fires. Only the hunt, the slow mastery of a body that doesn鈥檛 feel like his own, and the creeping realization that this world doesn鈥檛 follow the rules he knew....