Alaska's Frozen Heart
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Chapter 5: After Midnight
Supernatural Sex Story: Chapter 5: After Midnight - A legend waiting beneath the snow.
Caution: This Supernatural Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Consensual Romantic Heterosexual Fiction Paranormal Cream Pie Facial Oral Sex
Friday February 13, 2026
Sleeping in shifts sucked. It probably would have been smarter for each person to sleep half the night, but we got in the habit of switching every couple hours. It was almost one in the morning and Alasie was curled up on the couch under a blanket. I was sitting in an armchair eating an energy bar and enjoying a sports drink. Siku had lifted his head hopefully when I walked by, but the bar contained chocolate, so he had to settle for a pat on the head.
A few minutes later I was reading a book when I heard the familiar chime of an alert from the equipment in the next room. It wasn’t the blaring alarm that meant a problem, just a standard notification. Sometimes sensors drifted or software glitched. Other times it was random and normal permafrost shifts. That was the job.
The chime sounded again as I entered the dark lab and was greeted by several blinking lights. I hit the switch and took a seat at my desk. The alert was coming from one of the outer seismic nodes. Pulling up the data, I was expecting to see a calibration issue or an anomaly related to temperature.
“That’s new,” I muttered to myself, noticing how clean the readout was.
No noise at all. There was a slow and steady increase in load on the vertical channel. It seemed like something unimaginably heavy had pressed straight down on the sensor. No sharp spike, no chaotic scatters. I considered the sensor might have been seated in a layer of ice that suddenly expanded, but that definitely wasn’t right.
“Thermal contraction?” I whispered, entering a few commands.
The graph didn’t support that guess either. Thermal events were gradual, not at all like what I was seeing. A massive rise in pressure, it plateaued, then dropped off. Nothing on the neighboring nodes ruled out seismic activity. Even a minor tremor would register across several points.
It wasn’t human activity; Alasie was the only other person within several miles. Even if there was someone around I didn’t know about, a person would need heavy machinery to make that kind of a disturbance. I was about to mark the event as an isolated anomaly when the alert chimed again. Same sensor and same pattern. The rise in pressure was much greater the second time.
The two events were somewhat similar to what happened just before Alasie called for help. Although, not nearly as extreme. The alarm right before the attack indicated the sensors were almost overloaded. What was showing on the screen was within tolerance and was only impacting one node. The data being cleaner could be explained by me replacing the voltage regulator. The rest was a bigger question.
What could it be? I was a physicist; I understood geology. Animals didn’t trigger seismic sensors. Not like what I was seeing. It was possible for some erratic surface noise to show up if a large enough animal was moving in the right spot, but that didn’t fit with what was on the screen.
I pulled up the raw waveform and zoomed in, my pulse racing. My earlier thought was correct; it did seem like something heavy had rested on the sensor. Then came back. It wasn’t possible for an animal, unless one of those long-necked dinosaurs that weighed as much as several school buses had been brought back from extinction and wandered into Alaska.
Suddenly, all the nodes reacted at once. The pressure returned to the same node, and it was like a pulse traveled through the permafrost, pinging all the others. If it were a tremor, I would have felt it. The building stayed still, the silence heavy in the air. Once again, the pressure on the sensor was gone. I made sure to flag all the data to view later. I’d never seen anything like it.
The timestamps showed the nodes registered the pulse at the exact same moment. Not a wave. No delay. The permafrost had been pressed. The earth didn’t behave like that, and a full integrity check came back clean. No voltage irregularities, corrupted packets, or evidence of cross-communication between nodes. All of the equipment was functioning perfectly; the sensors for each node were doing their jobs.
A frown crossed my face when I realized it was too quiet. The wind had fallen silent, no longer rattling against the chain link or the station. Feeling uneasy, I got to my feet and returned to the common area. It was lucky I did, because I heard movement from outside not long after. Metal.
The floodlights were off to conserve power, and only dim lighting from the windows illuminated the snow outside. Something was moving near the fence. I rushed across the room and grabbed a pair of binoculars. I didn’t want to turn on the lights and scare whatever was out there.
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