The World Beyond The Ice Wall |work|

Imagine it as a giant snow globe. We live inside the glass, on the floor. The ice wall is the rim of the glass. What lies "beyond" is actually the outside of the globe—another world entirely, invisible to us because we are trapped inside the curvature of our own sky.

What did they see? A polynya—a hole in the ice—revealing open ocean underneath? Or a lens effect : the Ice Wall’s curved inner face reflecting an image of the outer world back toward the inner one? A mirage of a second sun, a green continent, a city of spires? the world beyond the ice wall

And you realize the most terrifying thing of all: Imagine it as a giant snow globe

: Fictional or mythological lands such as Atlantis , Asgard , or Lemuria . What lies "beyond" is actually the outside of