Wicht von Astert

[Unseelie]

Soon thereafter, a missing person's report went out, a young woman, around 19, had working in a mechanic's shop late one night, who never came home. The manhunt was simple, and brief, local authorities assuming that she'd simply taken the late tram in to the city to look for better work in a warmer climate. The climate may have been the key to the investigation, as well, as storms were moving in, and any evidence was soon frosted under a sheet of ice, and every shift was perforated by stops in the breakroom, or aboard the mobile operations center, until the storm itself settled over town, and the police were forced back underground.

Storms in the northern equatorial regions on Hamburg can take weeks to overpass a region. Nearly perpetual, the storms squat in concentric rings, gaining force over water and then skating across the snow and ice, they carry magnificent electrical charges, lighting entire regions with a dull glow, striking high points for prolonged periods...Other than electrical hazards, high velocity winds collected bits of dust and ash, which formed dangerous cutting saw teeth, carried by the wind, and hail the size of a human head fell from the sky, bouncing and shattering on impact. The sun would rise on a new horizon, cut with spires and blades, spikes and domes, and the ground would be hazardous to walk across, so sharply would the ice have frozen.