Wolf Mother quietly withdrew, and Bob and Sander, still harboring hope of returning alive, continued to explore the bitterly cold Arctic.
As for Tiffany and Divina in another heavy armored tank, they, too, followed a New Human, watching everything on the display screen, discovering the Arctic was already not the one they remembered.
The biting cold currents and the continuous month-long terrifying blizzards had changed the geography of the Arctic.
There were more icebergs and snow slopes, and the various animals they had once seen had gone into silence and concealment.
Tiffany and Divina, looking at everything on the screen, no longer felt the familiarity they had once known.
They did not know if they would still see the animals they had once documented, nor did they know what those animals had become over the past year.
If they had indeed turned into the exotic beasts from the news, could they truly survive and make their way out of the snow-covered Arctic?
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