Look closer.
Dark plates of cooled crust are split by glowing orange fissures.
Follow the seams through the broken crust. An occasional brightening reveals the old fire beneath.
A story from the frontier · Lore draft
The Fire Beneath Winter
The charts marked a cooling body. Through the telescope, the seams still answered in orange. The crew stayed for another watch, then another, unwilling to leave before the last light found its way through the crust.
