Overnight, the entire city was blanketed in white snow. The world seemed transformed.
Stella Sterling opened the window a crack. The cold wind howled in, scraping painfully against her face. She could feel the temperature had dropped significantly since yesterday.
She immediately shut the window, sealing it tight, and pulled the curtains down as well.
Moving away from the window, she turned on her phone, and a flood of messages immediately started pouring in, pinging nonstop. The homeowners' group chat for her residential complex had exploded. Stella tapped into it and glanced through the messages.
At first, someone in the group had mentioned how strange the snow was, and a few people discussed it. Then the group went quiet for a while. But in the dead of night, it lit up again. It turned out a resident was causing a commotion—someone had frozen to death last night.
