![]() ![]() If some of this – the bit about the icy sea and the magnetic force field – sounds familiar, that's because it has appeared on these pages before, albeit it in a different form. At night, in dead of winter, they cannot so much as brush fingertips, so the Nord man whiles away the dark hours in their igloo by telling her the story of how he journeyed to her via a land called Britanitarka, a place of tall trees and black fjords, and a city called Migdal Bavel, which was ruled by the fickle Sun King. ![]() Instead of sleeping in each other's arms, they can only swap sides of the bed, the better to lie in the warm hollow made by the other. Instead of pressing their lips together, they can only kiss pieces of paper and blow them to each other. They fall in love, but a peculiar magnetic force field means that they're unable to come within a 2ft radius of each other. He is a Nord, the first of his kind ever to circumnavigate the early Earth, and she is from the south pole, where he has just landed. A man and a woman meet, their canoes side by side in the icy sea. ![]()
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