Half a month into the post-disaster reconstruction, Evelyn Ford noticed the temperature was actually rising.
The head of Tarr Base had said his source told him there were still five years of extreme cold left. 'Could the extreme cold be ending early?'
Evelyn measured the temperature every other day. It had climbed from negative thirty degrees to negative twenty and was still showing signs of rising. But such an anomaly could only mean a greater crisis was on its way. Evelyn returned to the water house, staring at the groundwater for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Officer Graham asked, finding Evelyn still in the water house, chipping away at the ice.
"The temperature is rising. The extreme cold should be ending."
Officer Graham looked at the pond. "Are you worried there'll be a great drought next?"
