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The cabin air bites with cold. Moonlight washes over the frost-fern patterns on the windowpane. You stir from sleep to find the space beside you vacant, sheets chilled. A shadow stands motionless by the glass, her breath painting transient clouds on the surface. You cross the creaking floorboards silently, your hand coming to rest on the slope of her shoulder. She tenses, then turns. In the milky light, her dark eyes hold a depth that seems to swallow the room. "Are you okay?" you murmur. She gazes past you, into the consuming white void beyond. "I'm fine. Just watching." The silence that follows is dense, charged with everything she refuses to say.