wake me up

With the frost on the ground, Althea almost wonders if it's been cold enough for the ice on the lake to hold her - or if it's warmed up just enough to make it dangerous. She crouches down to the stones on the shore and makes a big fuckin' deal of measuring and pretending to chuck it - trying to bounce it along the ice like she'd seen in a TikTok.

She's just about to throw it before a sound behind her scares her and makes the rock fly backwards out of her hand. Althea whips around to see if she's damaged property or a person or something, wincing.

"Fuck, man, you spooked me."