This type of long-scale isolation was called overwintering, named after long-term missions in the Antarctic. It’d been one of the main reasons Naomi had been so determined to go on her trip to the South Pole the summer before she graduated. She wanted to prove she’d be able to cope with that detachment from the rest of humanity. She’d found the cold and the dark draining, as anyone would, and she mourned the fact that penguins could only be found in zoos. She’d also discovered pockets of pleasure.
