Ice House
A house made of weather
Keep moving.
Stand still and the cold moves in.
An igloo sits on a frozen ridge in blowing snow.
02 Whiteout
Go closer.
The weather is
part of the door.
The camera pushes into a whiteout.
03 Keepsakes · 3 recovered
Three things
the ice decided to keep.
Three artifacts rise out of the fog.
- Compass. It stopped pointing north the night the ice arrived. Now it points down, at the ring.
- Seed. Meant for a spring that never came, it waits the way only seeds can: one green thought against the cold.
- Star fragment. A splinter of star that fell too slowly to burn. It still remembers the long dark.
04 The ring · alignment 0/8
Older than
the snow.
A stone ring stands in the snow. Its arcs turn and lock into alignment.
The ring's grooves ignite, and the camera falls through it into space.
06 Far side · no known stars
The cold came
with you.
A night plain under a ringed planet. A saucer comes down and lands.
06 Far side · contact
Now you are
the strange thing
in the snow.
An alien stands on a pedestal.
Keep going. The light runs both ways.
Then a beam of light carries you back into the snow, to the ridge where you started.