Everywhere it was white--a dazzling, eye-blinding white.

The sun had risen.

It shot a thousand flashing shafts of radiant light into Miki's eyes.

So far as his vision could reach the earth was as if covered with a robe of diamonds.

From rock and tree and shrub blazed the fire of the sun; it quivered in the tree-tops, bent low with their burden of snow; it was like a sea in the valley, so vivid that the unfrozen stream running through the heart of it was black.