" The Snow Women do not love you. Nor is Mor my mother your friend.” “Do they think to frighten me with ice crystals?” Vlana demanded contemptuously. “Why, I know of Eastern fire sorceries compared to which their feeble magickings—” “But you are in their territory now, at the mercy of their element, which is crueler and subtler than fire,” Fafhrd interposed, brushing away the last of the bulgings, so that the hoops stood up again and the leather stretched almost flat between them. “Do not underrate their powers. "

― Fritz Leiber , Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #1)