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Snowbird’s civilian guise, Anne McKenzie gets a lecture from her superior, Inspector Hamilton, at the RCMP post, and she is imprisoned until she can explain to him her unaccounted for absences. Her colleague Doug Thompson tries to help her, but it’s no use. Inside her cell, Snowbird’s mystical senses alert her to one of the Great Beasts having broken free. She easily breaks free from her holding cell, and flies towards the drillsite, where construction workers accidentally released Kolomaq, the living embodiment of winter. Snowbird challenges the Beast, who recognizes her divinity. Kolomaq unleashes a powerful snowstorm, covering the area in white, and filling the air with snow. Snowbird and Kolomaq have a battle in the snow, in which Snowbird puts her shapeshifting powers to the test. She almost gets lost between the animal psyches, but overcomes it only to get wounded by the Beast. Finally when Snowbird taunts the Great Beast, he brings about his own demise by causing a landslide to fall upon him. As the soil of the tundra is Kolomaq’s natural enemy, he is once more detained. Snowbird mystically heals herself, bids the drill site workers to seal the area in concrete, and flies off, realizing that the walls between dimensions grow weaker. She fears that once the other five Beasts have been defeated, her time on Earth may be done. In Ottawa, Guardian arrives at his home, only to find a very surprising letter addressed to him from Roxxon Oil, an American oil company.