The Mothers went north for over an hour on their way out of the Rift. They were searching for a place to rest and recuperate when they came across a crevasse. It was relatively narrow, but Siosiann had spotted that the ice was thin on the far wall. Jito flew over to investigate and he used his flaming sword to cut a hole in the ice. He discovered a chamber in the ice with a passageway leading off into the ice towards the rear. Jito threw up a rope to the others and they secured it to pitons driven into the ice. Jito secured the other end on the ledge and the Mothers made their way over the crevasse to join him. They all entered the chamber which was unoccupied. They carefully proceeded to the passageway which spiralled down into the ice. After a couple of turns the passage flattened out and became stone floored. After twenty feet this passage opened into a room carved from stone and ice which had eight humanoid sized cots and one door on the right hand wall. This door led to a small room with a circular hole in the stone floor plugged by an ice disk. The Mothers decided to rest in this area. Siosiann and Fonesca went back up to the cave above. Siosiann cast a wall of water and Fonesca froze it, using a cone of cold. This sealed the entrance. Levi then cast a glyph of warding in the upper chamber with Tyr痴 name being the pass phrase.
The group then rested and watched while Levi lit a block of his incense of meditation as he sat down for eight hours to play for cure spells and a raise dead for Guthranka. Siosiann, Jito and Fonesca also took the chance to recover or change their spells while Gaspode and Tettet warily scanned the ice passage for possible intruders, or perhaps home comers. The eight hours passed without incident. Levi stirred from his reverie and prepared himself for his ceremony as Gaspode unfolded his sheet of smallness and restored Guthranka痴 body to its correct size. When both were ready, Levi began to chant, holding his silver holy symbol tightly in his hand. The concern that he felt for the paladin was etched clearly in his face as the words came to him, but the power did not fail him and Guthranka痴 body soon glowed with life again. Levi sat back relieved while Guthranka slept. After about thirty minutes, Levi began casting the curative magics on the others in the group. When he was done, all of the others� wounds had been removed. He himself was still somewhat injured, but he slept before attempting to redress this. The others were taking shifts of watching at this time and although the settling sounds of the ice around them were disturbing, nothing interrupted the group. On rising, Levi prayed again, curing himself with the spells that he gained. Guthranka was also strong enough to lay her hands on him, completing his restoration. As the rest of the group were rested, they decided to leave the crevasse and return to the Rift. On their way out along another rope, Fonesca slipped and would have fallen, but for the quick action of Siosiann, who held on to the falling mage until Jito could take some of her weight on his broom.
Not long after this the Mothers had returned to the vicinity of the Rift. Jito went off to scope the area on his broom after he had cast an Improved Invisibility on himself. Wanting to find out more about the westerly ledges, Jito flew along that side of the Rift, the wind was too strong for him to fly high over the rift, so he hugged the walls of ice. Before he reached the first entrance that he had seen before, a wall of ice completely blocked passage along the ledge. The wind precluded going over or around this ledge, so Jito returned to the party just before his invisibility gave out. The Mothers then decided to go beyond the Rift entrance and try to spy down on the activities below from the edges. Fonesca tried various avian forms from her Polymorph Self spell before settling on the more stable polar bear form to peer over the edge. She saw ordered groups of Frost Giants patrolling the ledges fifty feet below and went back to discuss this with the other Mothers.