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There are a pair of adolescents that are currently without a place to stay for the night.
This isn't in itself uncommon, but it is unfortunate, considering that it's winter. They have the warmest clothes they can manage, and a blanket besides, but in a foot of snow, snuggling up is required. There's no shelter in this town. A nook in a building is found that shields them from the worst of the biting wind, and the both of them hope they end up alive and with all of their extremities none the worse for wear. To help guarantee this, they check to see if a fire could be seen from the street, and then when it is found to not, they go and make one. They'll take turns sleeping, but right now the older brother is the one awake. He finds the correct position to prod at the fire from under the blanket without disturbing his sleeping sister or letting the cold in. As such, he prods at it, and doesn't let himself sleep. Instead he thinks about the injustices of the world.
It'll be a long night.
