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The Fourth Year of the Longwinter: Spring Equinox

In the north the snow was still falling. The great ice sheets continued to spread across the continents, merging, pressing south. As so much water was locked up in the newly formed ice, all around the world sea levels dropped, and the land grew arid. Even the tropical forests withered back.

One day new kinds of terrain would coalesce south of the ice sheets, belts of sparse tundra, grassy steppe, barren desert, stretching all around a colder, dryer planet. The chill oceans would be fecund too. New ways of life, in the future.

One day. For now, there was only the death of the old.

Still this was only the beginning.