In the end, the two little lambs were slaughtered. The temperature was too high now, and they needed water and fresh grass. Evelyn figured it would be impossible to care for them once the polar day began. She made several steamer baskets of steamed lamb with rice flour and sent some to Quincy and the others.
Everyone in the safe zone was prepared for the polar day. The nights grew shorter day by day until, half a month later, darkness vanished completely. The polar day had arrived.
After the polar day began, the sun seemed to grow larger. There were no longer any clouds in the sky; the vast, white sunlight formed concentric halos. The wind seemed to have vanished as well. Evelyn took out her pocket watch and watched the second hand move. If not for the fact that time was still passing and she could still move freely, she would have thought the entire world had been put on pause.
