Beyond Antarctica I

<p>There are places on the world map that seem like blank spacesempty spaces between coordinate linesfrozen regions with no story.Antarctica isfor most peopleone of those places:a land of eternal coldendless storms and absolute silence.But the truth is that silence does not mean the absence of life sometimes it just means that no one has listened closely enough.Throughout historythere have been rumorsstrange reportstestimonies lost in dusty archives.Explorers who claimed to have seen inexplicable lights under the ice.Satellite photos with impossible shadows.Old mapsin which the edges of the continent did not end with waterbut with unknown areas.All of this has been attributed to hallucinationsinstrument errors orsimplyimagination.Until the night Dave dreamed.It was not an ordinary dreambut an image so clear that he felt the sharp cold in his lungs and the sound of ice cracking under his feet. Aheadbeyond a huge wall of icestretched a green valleybathed in the light of three suns.He knewwithout being toldthat this place did not exist on any mapand yetit was real.Thousands of kilometers awayin the same cityAnn dreamed of something else:a huge piece of icecrossed by a crystalline tunnel. At its endthe air was warmfragrantand the sky had colors they had never seen before.In the morningwhen they shared their dreamsthey understood that they were not simple coincidences.The fragments completed each other perfectlylike two pieces of the same puzzle.Anddeep downthey both felt the same thing:that someone or something had called them.What they did not yet know was that the path they were about to take was not just a geographical expeditionbut a passage between worlds.A journey that would forever change their perception of what Earth and humanity mean.Becausebeyond Antarcticathere is a world that no one talks about.A world that has chosen to remain hidden.And whichperhapswill not have this choice for a long time.</p>