You have been wandering through the snow and wind driven ice. For how long, you do not know, but you are so cold that you can barely feel your fingers, face and toes. In the distance you see a dark splotch against the almost vertical ice wall you are walking/climbing up. As you get closer, it gets bigger and wider until eventually you see that it is a hole in the ice, making it look like an entrance to a cave. A cave. Some place out of the raging wind and biting ice. Some place warm. Well. Warmer than out here that is. You look up at the opening as you climb the last few feet to it and off to the left you see the faint silhouette of what looks like a person trapped in the ice. Seeing that shape in the ice, you decide to go in, but as you look in, you realise that you can't really see anything, just this tunnel with an eerie, dark icy green glow. You start to feel apprehensive about going inside, but the wind and snow and ice (and that body) are forcing you to make a decision. One way or the other.
Dare to enter? |