Khione is a snow nymph: or so the showman Glaukos claims, as he displays her amongst his mermaids, fallen angels, and Minotaur's brethren.
As for Khione well, she can't remember if it's true or not.
But she abruptly knows that it is true that a great sea monster prowls the oceans.
For as they take ship across the Mediterranean, it bears down upon them and easily swallows up their ship whole