Cloudburst Ice Magic
“Damn. They wouldn’t be able to track her phone using GPS. She stuffed the little device back into her pack and did her best to smile at the others in the snow fort.
The temperature had warmed from the stove and their combined body heat, but she had no illusions of how long it would last. They had two days’ worth of food to help fight the cold. After that, things would get tough.
Randy settled beside her after distributing the sleeping bags and nodded his graying head to her pack. “Did you get a...nything out?”
Lily shrugged. “I hope so. Sent a text just before my phone died. You?”
“I sent my wife a text and powered the phone down to save the battery. I got nothing from the radio.” He scraped more snow into the pot and set it on the stove to melt. They wouldn’t turn it on for a bit, but their body heat would help it liquefy. “What’s your gut tell you about our situation?”
She let her gaze slide over the others huddled in the tent. Their expressions varied from miserable to worried, and Lily lowered her voice to a whisper.MoreLess
The temperature had warmed from the stove and their combined body heat, but she had no illusions of how long it would last. They had two days’ worth of food to help fight the cold. After that, things would get tough.
Randy settled beside her after distributing the sleeping bags and nodded his graying head to her pack. “Did you get a...nything out?”
Lily shrugged. “I hope so. Sent a text just before my phone died. You?”
“I sent my wife a text and powered the phone down to save the battery. I got nothing from the radio.” He scraped more snow into the pot and set it on the stove to melt. They wouldn’t turn it on for a bit, but their body heat would help it liquefy. “What’s your gut tell you about our situation?”
She let her gaze slide over the others huddled in the tent. Their expressions varied from miserable to worried, and Lily lowered her voice to a whisper.MoreLess
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