The following account was recorded in the agent's log during your transmission: A frozen, kilometer-wide lake stretches out, the ice surface etched with a labyrinthine pattern of fine, glittering cracks that seem to pulse with a faint blue light. The air's got a crisp, biting chill and smells like wood smoke, with a low-pressure system brewing on the horizon, judging by the clouds gathering in the distance. Like, a gleaming, stainless steel Viking longboat somehow embedded in the ice is slowly being excavated by a swirling vortex of superheated water that seems to be coming from nowhere. It's early morning, with the pale sun hanging just above the horizon.