A gas pipe hit a few towns over caused an outage of heat for miles. Luckily, the heating company claimed it would be fixed in just a week. But for a certain warm-blooded individual, the idea of cold showers for more than two days was deadly.

“I refuse to believe Hell is hot,” Zahara muffled into the three blankets she had piled up over herself, curled up in a ball under the heater. Even still, she was shivering.