The Frozen Rebirth

A man wakes in a frozen wilderness—not 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’t feel like his own, and the creeping realization that this world doesn’t follow the rules he knew.