Ice outpost
Ice to the horizon, one warm bulb, a dog asleep at your back
A cramped survey hut cut into blue ice, its wide window looking out on a frozen plain and distant white peaks. A parka-wrapped researcher sits at the far console while a husky dozes against the wall, and the near desk holds an open logbook, a steel mug and a dead monitor. It is very quiet in here, and very cold beyond the glass.
Indoors, Mountains, Day, Snow, Focused, Austere, Lonely, Cold light, Dim, Brutalist
In this room
- A journal: what you write stays in the room, and only the people you choose can read it.
- A sound of its own — rain, a fire, a radio station to leave playing.
- A clock that keeps your time.
- A window with the real weather where you are.
- A note for the day, where you will see it.
- Frames for your own photographs.
- An assistant that knows the room and what you keep in it.
- A shelf for your files.
- A lamp that turns the room from light to dark.
- The lamps give a soft glow.
- After dark the same room has a night of its own, with its own light.