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Northern Lights
by FlexiLingo · 12 pages · 33 min
Wildlife photographer Jonah Reyes has one week in the Yukon to capture the northern lights for a magazine cover. His guide, a quiet local woman named Ruth Silas, has other plans for what he should see first. When a winter storm cuts them off from Whitehorse, the assignment becomes a question of survival. A B2 adventure novella.
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Chapter One: Minus Thirty-Eight
The first thing Jonah Reyes learned about the Yukon was that his camera did not like it.
He stepped out of the terminal building at Whitehorse airport at eleven in the morning, into a light so pale and cold it seemed to come from a different sun, and within four minutes the battery indicator on his thirteen-thousand-dollar camera had dropped from full to empty. The screen went black. The zoom ring froze stiff under his gloved fingers.
"Put it inside your jacket," said a voice behind him. "Against your body. And don't bring it straight into a warm car, or it'll fog up inside the lens and you'll lose a day waiting for it to dry."
He turned. A woman in her fifties was leaning against a battered pickup truck with its engine running and a cable plugged into a post beside it. She wore a parka with a fur-trimmed hood pushed back, and her face, weathered and calm, gave nothing away.
"Ruth Silas," she said. "Your guide. You're the photographer."
"Jonah Reyes. The magazine said you were the best."
"The magazine said you had photographed polar bears in Churchill and emperor penguins in Antarctica," said Ruth. "And that you have seven days to get a cover picture of the aurora borealis." She opened the passenger door. "The aurora doesn't read magazines."
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