"Huh?" Aria gasped before asking with surprise, "How did we get surrounded so suddenly? Where did they all pop out from?"
"Under the ice," Leon stated.
After Aria heard his answer, she glanced down with surprise. However, she couldn't tell anything simply by looking at the ice surface.
It was semi-transparent, but it didn't reach very far before turning completely white. As such, Aria couldn't confirm whether hollow spaces existed under the thick ice.
Nevertheless, since Leon already said the Winter Cats came from under the ice, a large hollow space must exist.
Even so, she did not see any entrances on the way back to shore.
"I don't remember seeing any holes along the way. So it's rather strange that we would be surrounded by Winter Cats so quickly and so subtly," Faelyn mentioned her doubt.