 It has also been published by Sphere Books in the omnibus paperback collection "The Conan Chronicles" (1989).Tiring of the icy lands of the Aesir, Conan is traveling through the icy wastelands north of his home country, and finds himself protecting a girl named Ilga, who is attacked by a tribe of savage subhumans.With night approaching fast, and Conan's horse killed in his battle against the savages, they take refuge in an ice cave, despite Ilga's seemingly irrational fears of something she merely calls "Yakhmar", failing to elaborate.