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The silence of the Arctic night was absolute.

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heavy enough to feel in the chest.

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Cailin drifted in his small wooden kayak. his

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paddle resting across his knees as he

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let the current carry him deeper into the

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glacial fjord.

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Towering icy cliffs rose on either side of

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him like the jagged. sleeping ribs of ancient

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giants. glowing with a soft. ethereal luminescence under

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the light of a pale winter moon.

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Below him. the dark Arctic waters were impossibly

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still.

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They acted as a flawless mirror. doubling the

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colossal height of the frostbound peaks

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and capturing every intricate. razor -sharp detail of

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the ice texture above.

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For a long time. the only sound was

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the rhythmic thud of his own heartbeat and

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the occasional

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distant crack of a shifting glacier miles away.

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a sound like thunder trapped beneath

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glass.

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Then. the sky above the ridge began to

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wake.

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A faint. ghostly green shimmer unfurled across the

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stars. slow and breath -like.

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The aurora bled downward. painting the edge of

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the glacial cliffs in pale emerald and

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casting long. dancing reflections across the mirror -like

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surface of the sea.

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Cailin held his breath. drifting between two worlds

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of ice and light. completely lost in

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the majestic quiet of the northern wild.