EPILOGUE:
BEFORE, NOW... AND LATER
Five months before the storm, a man and a girl were jogging in the park around 7 a.m. (the boy had a crew-cut). It was still dark and it was winter, but it was California – no snow. About a mile away from them, there was a frozen figure stuck in the ground; it started to move, and soon the ice shattered loudly. The two heard it and stopped.
“What was that?” said the girl.
“I don't know. Something got broken, I guess...”
In two minutes they reached the place – there was only a big hole in the ground, and shattered ice around it.
“What the hell?!” said the boy. “Is this... ice? Where did it come from?”
“Uh, New York? It’s pretty cold there now.”
“Looks like it fell from above.”
They both looked up, and the boy said:
“From an airplane, maybe...”
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