Fourteenth day.
When Lin Yu'an woke up, he found the outside world utterly silent, the sky exhibiting a blue unique to the aftermath of a snowstorm.
He stepped out of the shelter, taking a deep breath of the cold, fresh air.
Another bout of heavy snow had fallen last night, covering the entire world with a new white blanket.
"A perfect sunny day." He squinted, adjusting to the glaring snow light.
"But the colder the weather happens to be on such days. Now, I must go see how the night's plummet in temperature and snowfall has impacted our food sources."
When he reached the coast, the scene before him made his heart sink to the bottom.
The tide was at its lowest point of the day, but the vast grey mudflat that had been there was now completely gone.
In its place sprawled a broad white ice field, covered with countless ice floes and accumulated snow!
