Interlude: Alf Gappen Was Here
12/9/20251 hr 32 min
In the frozen hills of Rhuv, the Sigrunsgjalfi Children’s Home sits silent beneath a sky of unfamiliar stars. No lights glow in the windows and no signs of celebration mark the coming of Alf Gappen’s Day. Yet in the stillness, a single sleeping child hums a quiet tune that carries impossibly far across the snow. Three spirits hear it and cross the tundra to a place stripped of joy, determined to bring warmth and wonder.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan
Erika Ishii
Aabria Iyengar
Lou Wilso...
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There are few things like winter that marry the feelings of wonder and joy with sorrow and solitude. Deep in icy plains, stretching between lines of dark and naked trees, leaves vanished, icicles hanging and glinting under the starlight, no drop of thaw to be seen for miles and miles. Under unfamiliar stars that we have not seen yet in Umora, a broad, wide, and ominous building sits in the center of snowy hills, whose long and shallow slopes indicate the vastness of this place that grants a feeling of loneliness, and yet in their gentle sloping obscures the horizon. This building sits