An icy tall mountain range which stretches from near the desert all the way across connecting India to the major landscape of Asia. It is a cold and desolate place which seems to house only the heartiest of creatures capable of withstanding the great cold here. Liquids freeze and blood chills almost instantly and the cold winds are so vast they seem to cut people right down to the bone.
After a departure from a place known as the Sands of Time, a boat containing the demigods Athos and Deianira moved across the shifting waters of the Himalayas. Much water had been forced into this location from outside, but it moved at such velocities that there was no worry of it freezing. Soon enough, the boat reached the land of the Himalayas, and Athos hopped out. He'd been silent on this trip for a day and a half, and he remained so even now. No hesitation came between him exiting the boat, and him walking away from it and his current traveling partner.
Deianira rode along the waters happily. Though her partner for this particular adventure was quite silent for the day and half trip it'd taken to get here, which she sort of expected given he was apparently upset for reasons she couldn't begin to fathom, mostly because he wouldn't speak about them. "Ya' know, I expected the silent treatment and all, but a day and a half is a long time not to speak." she said as she walked along behind him, knowing after their boat had come to a rather abrupt stop that he was likely going to leave. She'd gotten far to used to the boy's mannerisms not to know that he'd abandon ship swiftly after they arrived. "So how about this, truce, I'll drop it... just say something~" she said before thinking about it. "Preferably not a statement about me going anywhere~" she said, the cold of this area hadn't quite hit her yet but the different in temperature as they approached had been rather obvious.
The daughter of Dionysus continued her annoying ways of aiming to converse. Even though she offered to stop speaking on the Gorgon topic from earlier, the simple fact that she knew about it bothered Athos to no end. Either way, he hardly had the ability to not speak at this time. "There aren't any snakes here. I can't get any information about the Minotaurs," he said. With that, he continued on a forward path toward unknown locations.
Deianira called the truce and it seemed it was accepted, though only out of necessity apparently. He said that there weren't any snakes around so he couldn't get any information, the mountain range wouldn't have reptiles given the temperature, but given this she'd speak on it while searching for what she was now looking for. "Of course there aren't any snakes, high elevations and decreased temperatures aren't really good places for reptile life~" she said, knowing at least that much given her own hunting experiences. "But..." she stopped walking at the bottom of a hill and began to make a noise akin to a cat purring. Something which likely could have gone unseen began to descend one of the mountains. Large paws and steel blue eyes soon emerged from the snow. A spotted coat would leave a large cat at the young woman's side and she reached out for it immediately. Soon enough Deianira was being affectionately pawed by a snow leopard which she questioned telepathically until she found the necessary information. It was quite strange to talk to an animal in such a way, and she made sure to give it a firm pat before watching it climb up the mountain again.
"So... Ice Minotaur is apparently bad news~ It went on a rampage a couple of months back and fell into a cavern on a mountain and has been trying to bash its way out. It eats anything that falls in there, and makes a ridiculous amount of noise. According to the Snow Leopard even the big predators don't seem to want to try and kill it... so the mountain which it is in is uninhabited and with a melted ice cap. There~" she said pointing to the place where their apparent prey could be found.
Athos' stride continued as Deianira spoke with the snow leopard. Soon, she shared the information she'd received from the creature. Looking toward the location Deianira pointed out, Athos set himself on the most direct path toward it. "I'll kill it in its cave, then." This was the only other thing the son of Poseidon had to say on the matter. After this ordeal, all he had to do was somehow obtain the blood of a god. Compared to that, and the task ahead when all was said and done, this would be a simple walk on the beach during an early summer day.
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