[Exploration] Trailblazer's Cutie Mark (+5) affects your roll. You roll a 5 +5 (required 10). Success!
[Reflex] You make a saving throw of 7 (required 10). Partial success.

After discussing it with your party, you decide to take a shortcut through the mountains to the east. You head to the clifftops at edge of town, and prepare yourselves for the cooler skies ahead as best you can.

You give Blue Cloak of Feather Fall to Moonflower.

Once both of your friends are geared up and Honourshine is seated snugly on your back, you take flight eastward. You glide past a winding river in a verdant valley, and fly up into the highlands, weaving your way between tall snowy peaks as the barren ground climbs higher, and the air grows colder.

The howling of the wind rushing against snow and stone is all that fills your ears for the next few minutes. You fly low, sheltered from the higher currents, and squint your eyes through the occasional bite of alpine frost blasting one way or another.

Moonflower: "Whoa‼"

Out of nowhere, a white blur rushes past you. Moonflower dodges out of the way just in time to avoid getting hit, but as you turn your head to see where it came from, something soft and cold pelts you square in the face.

You veer, half-blinded, and barely have time to shake the snow out of your mane before noticing the angled terrain fast approaching. With a few beats of your wings, you manage to slow yourself down and land safely. Moonflower touches down next to you an instant later.

Moonflower: "You two okay?"

You nod stiffly, a pair of yellow hooves wrapped tightly around your neck. Honourshine breathes a sigh of relief, and you lower yourself to let her off the bumpy ride.

Honourshine: "Thanks, Blaze. And... sorry for squeezing."

Suddenly, a head peeks out from atop a higher cliff. Then, a strange monkey-like creature pops out, and slides down a snowy trail to your level, where it stops to pose triumphantly — tauntingly juggling a snowball with one hand. The culprit, no doubt.

Creature: "Kh kh kh! Stupid Kirin! You can't come here. These are our springs!"

Honourshine: "Is... that a Devourer?"

Tsu-Ko: "Worse: it's an imp. Annoying doesn't even begin to describe these things. Well, warrior, let's see how you choose how to handle that one."