Second Cold Time

''This article is about the second Cold Time. For the first Cold Time go to First Cold Time.'' The second Cold Time was a harsh winter that descended on Maris and brought down the ice creepers from the Mountain to devour warm flesh. It happened when, like their ancestors from the Valley of Gold, the people of Rin built a fence around the bukshah field, preventing the animals from travelling to the Mountain during winter every year to feast on the grey fungus produced by the ice creepers there and allowing the ice creepers to multiply. The winter lasted several months, passing into spring, until Rowan, Zeel, Shaaran and Norris went to Mountain Heart with the bukshah and ended the Cold Time.