The temperature meanwhile had plummeted to forty below. It was so cold that steam from the valley’s warm springs was freezing in the air, forming tiny crystals of ice that hung on the breeze and caught the morning sun. The phenomenon, called fairy dust by park veterans, was usually cause for delight. But now the brutal cold felt like a bad omen for O-Six’s lost pup.
“The temperature meanwhile had plummeted to forty below. It was so cold that steam from the valley’s warm springs was freezing in the air, forming tiny crystals of ice that hung on the breeze and caught the morning sun. The phenomenon, called fairy dust by park veterans, was usually cause for delight. But now the brutal cold felt like a bad omen for O-Six’s lost pup.”
