Minutes went by. Nora had seven layers of clothing on,
but her eyelids felt like they were stiffening and could freeze shut if she closed them for too long.
She heard the voices of the others occasionally drift over to her,
and, for a while, her colleagues returned close enough for her to see some of them.
Silhouettes in the fog, hunched over the ground, reading ice samples with equipment she wouldn’t have understood.
But then they disappeared again. She ate one of the protein bars in her rucksack. It was cold and hard as toffee.
She checked her phone but there was no signal. It was very quiet.
The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.
You heard something and you had to pay attention. As she was chewing there came another splashing sound, but this time from a different direction.
The combination of fog and weak light made it hard to see. But it wasn’t a walrus.
That became clear when she realised the silhouette moving towards her was big.
Bigger than a walrus, and much bigger than any human.
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