The Snow

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It was cold. It was always cold though. Tim was used to it by now. He had always heard stories about how it used to be warm, and how people would actually get hot. He longed for these mythical days sometimes, but knew that they had to be stories made for the young ones to sleep with at night.

Tim lived in what used to be known as Florida. The average high for temperatures was around -40 degrees Celsius in the dead of winter like it was now. Any skin exposed to this cold for longer than ten minutes would suffer extensive frostbite.

That was a big issue in Tim's small town. In a world like this, you wouldn't want to loose a finger. Of course, there were other things one needed to be careful of. Things like the people. The Militia to be exact. There are roving bandits here and there, but the Militia is something else.