They hopped off their snow machines, pointed their guns at us, and yelled for us to surrender. XXX –
The recent war had been going on two weeks before we heard the Corporates were near our province. Anika led me away. If it were water instead of Winter, they were bears who could swim, but we were the sharks. Even men on foot might break the ice. Surprisingly, the Soviet government was efficient. The heavy snowfall returned in the morning, but it warmed up a little. Any liquid on our bodies would cool us even more. We realized we might fall off a cliff or run into trees and get hurt if we kept going. We realized we loved each other in a physical way, as well as the usual family way.
