you’ll find yourself at the edge of a breathtaking transformation. The wind howls with a strange, almost musical force—sharp and clean—as if it’s been purified by the snow-covered peaks that crown the mountains around you. The gusts are strong, insistent, and with them, they carry a flurry of soft, cotton-like ice particles. These fragile flecks of frost swirl through the air like feathers, brushing against your skin and clinging to your coat.
They scatter over the rocky slopes and drift down onto the seashore, where waves, thickening with ice, lap against the forming floes. The water slows, heavy with slush, and you can see delicate plates of ice locking together like puzzle pieces, creating a shimmering white carpet over the blue.
This icy layer is growing—slow but unstoppable. It creeps across the surface of the sea like a silent tide, bringing with it a quiet stillness. You’ll notice the change not just with your eyes, but in the air itself. It smells clean and ancient, like untouched time. And surprisingly, you feel good. There’s something calming about it. The cold is sharp, yes, but it awakens something inside you—something that feels wide and open.
As the wind eases, falling into long, slow breaths, a sweeping view opens before you. A massive, glacial plain stretches to the horizon. This is the Venus zone—an alien cold, almost surreal. It shimmers with frost, a pale mirror of the sky. It’s so vast and unfamiliar that your body struggles to accept it, as if you’re standing on another planet. Breathing becomes a quiet ritual. Every sound is muffled by snow.
Far in the distance, you spot movement. Tiny silhouettes on the pale seascape. A group of people—wrapped in heavy coats—are aboard small wooden boats, navigating carefully through the cracked maze of ice. They look like specks in a dream, fragile in the face of nature’s immense power, yet persistent, like a memory trying not to fade.
And here you stand, between mountains and sea, cold wind and silence. A witness to something ancient, slow, and beautiful.
