Patchwork Universe

Jack Frost · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject: Another day in the Kingdom of Ice

The figure skated over a lake, spinning and whirling and leaving intricate tracery on the frozen surface. It danced among the falling snowflakes, sprang lithely up trees, and permanently seemed to be on the verge of breaking into an expensively-choreographed song.
Its only audience were the myriad forest animals, all of them content to carry on with their own affairs. They had gotten quite used to the young, blue-skinned man, dressed in ridiculous-looking blue-silver knickerbockers, knee-high stockings and a similarly extravagant waistcoat, who periodically interrupted their business to dance and cavort in the hostile, frozen wasteland. As far as they were concerned, he could do what he liked.
Jack Frost (for that was his name) seemed to pause for a moment, noticing for the first time the strange, greyish haze to the west. This got his attention. Jack was an impulsive fellow, and entirely unable to resist the temptation to investigate. He stepped through.