Apex Thaw: A Night In Solar Winter: Sunkeeper Series, #1
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One man:
Bitter cold. Loneliness. Empty halls. War machines. Uncertainty.
One woman:
Inner warmth. Torch of hope. Trapped in storms. His enemy.
They both must meet.
They steer the climate course of earth.
Apex thaw is a solarpunk/lunarpunk winters short story of the Carbon Coast solarpunk blog & story world.
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Apex Thaw - Connor Carbon
Apex Thaw: A Night In Solar Winter
Sunkeeper Series, Volume 1
Connor Carbon
Published by Connor Carbon, 2019.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
APEX THAW: A NIGHT IN SOLAR WINTER
First edition. May 1, 2019.
Copyright © 2019 Connor Carbon.
Written by Connor Carbon.
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Apex Thaw: A Night In Solar Winter (Sunkeeper Series, #1)
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For those who believe in an environmentally stable future of our mother Earth—even when it's cold, dark and lonely.
May you find your candle to keep your light and your warmth alive until the Great Spring.
Apex Thaw
By Connor Carbon
[i.]
NO ONE BROUGHT TO SOLVOID could escape the pulse of passing time. Timepulses flared in intervals from Monoliths at Metasol, synchronizing cities. Dark skies above settlements echo light for travelers wide. Even here at Apex, time was marching, measured by the energy of Mother Moon.
Every timepulse shined with glowing violet light, followed by a mild and distant thunder. As a mother‘s stern reminder does, each moonburst kept the rhythm for a land without the sun.
Wiping blood and tears from her olive-skinned face, Kota Vahl sat on a bunk in the Apex Weather and Defense Campus. She‘d been awake since the caravan left Altilium Nova. Now filled with exhausted travelers, the Habitat building served as shelter from the winter storm.
Kota did her best to go to sleep early. Stinging still was the cut upon her lip from where a racist lunar witch struck her, three pulses ago.
Despite her swollen nose, Kota smelled something delicious. The savory sweetness of warm prickle pie wafted through the quarter’s doorway. With the fragrance came Avi and Meenu Lark, Kota’s recent Kosoluma friends. Powders, jams and doughy crumbs smeared their Earth-tone clothing. It was second nature for Kota’s close new travel partners to check on her.
How’re you doing, rabble-rouser?
Avi said. She came in licking a glob of filling off her hand. Her slender frame hung from her head as wet clothing did from hangers. Her pale skin, shining in the dim light of the carbon-filter lamps, looked much more ghostly.
How do you think I’m doing?
Kota said. Her hazel eyes rolled into their chocolate-colored lids. "Trapped in