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A Figure Like That<br />

FORTY-EIGHT<br />

Matilda stood there on the ice sheet as the<br />

arctic wind whistled past her while she watched<br />

her engineers positioning a drill that was<br />

hoisted up in the air by the claw of a bright red<br />

crane that was entrenched so deep into the ice<br />

that not even an hurricane could have moved it<br />

an inch. While the current blizzard became<br />

denser and denser the wind speed had reached<br />

to a gale level and this threw so much ice into<br />

the air that Dr Green felt like she was watching<br />

the whole event through a thickened frozen<br />

window, but this did not perturb her at all, this<br />

was the exact time for this to happen and she<br />

gestured towards the engineers to lower the<br />

drill.<br />

While the tip of the machine broke into the<br />

icesheet, she pushed up her collar and thermos<br />

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