When did they arrive?

Maggie appeared through the blizzard like a ghost, her footsteps and profile having been hidden

by the sheet of snow and ice falling all around us.

I didn't jump and once I realized she was looking at the cigarette in my hand,

and really nodded and offered her one.

She surprised me by taking it, and we stood silently, eyes fixing the spot on the horizon where we knew the ship was

lying perfectly preserved.

I had HQ send a drone over with more appropriate supplies, I said, so we're definitely staying then

Sebastian must be beside himself Maggie replied following it up with a quiet

chuckle he is certainly looking itchy, I replied, but personally I'll be fine never looking at another piece of suet in my life.

At a torture, she groaned, shaking ahead.

I've been jogging ten miles every morning since I was 17, but these

last few days have been something else. He just thrives off of it, doesn't he?

It's his stick, I replied. What he does?

He only agreed because he thought we'd never find the damn thing,

and it would be two weeks of solid trekking through Arctic winter.

But he has his own fundraising to do,

and it needs the work of interest with

little tricks like this one.

Five thousand calories a day, Maggie said.

I don't know how anyone could do it for fun.

Well, at least the new supplies are better suited to camp life.

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