I wanted to give a shoutout to a story called Rise of the Firstborn by Briizy, buuuuut..... I realized that I had established a pattern of sending super-awesome gifts first, and to just give a shoutout without a gift would break the habit.

So, I paid a Canadian dude I found on the internet to make a few hundred daggers carved out of ice and shipped them overnight on a refrigerated plane (I learned my lesson when I mailed the kittens) to be air-dropped over the Author's house.

Now I know what some of you are thinking - that sounds a lot like an anime fight end scene, and you're right! Because that's exactly what I had to tell the pilot to convince him not to attach tiny parachutes to the daggers. Parachutes might make for a safer delivery, sure, but then the ice would melt on the way down which would ruin the whole gift.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

That outta the way, I can now proceed to the shoutout:

Rise of the Firstborn is worth checking out. It's got a bit of an Alice-in-Wonderland meets Frozen feel to it, if you overlook stabbing people with ice magic and other cool stuff like that.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45603/rise-of-the-firstborn

UPDATE: Apparently dropping ice daggers is dangerous and the author suffered a loss of one ear and three toes. Hired two more Canadians to begin mailing her toes and ears so that she would have a selection of replacements to choose from.