Where the World Forgets to Be White
In the loneliest corner of Antarctica, a small drift of snow becomes something more.
Firn has never known anything but silence - ancient, crushing, beautiful.
But on Christmas Eve, the world's joy ripples across the planet and reaches him.
For one miraculous night, he feels warmth, wonder... and the impossible sensation of being seen.
When the Glimmer fades, Firn is left with a truth he was never meant to understand:
all joy is borrowed, and all borrowed joy must be returned.
As the sun rises and the melt begins, Firn confronts the terror of losing not just his shape, but the memories he clings to - the penguin chick he sheltered, the auroras that crowned him in light, the brief moment the world believed in magic.
But melting is not the end.
In this poetic, heartbreaking fable of winter and impermanence, Firn discovers that transformation is a kind of survival - and that even the smallest life can carry the echo of a miracle into the world.
A quiet story for anyone who has ever loved December, feared the silence that follows, or wondered what becomes of the magic when the season ends.