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Fic of the Day: Peter Pan

Groundog's Day has nothing on Polar Bear Day.

The other day (Groundhog's Day, actually) I was driving home and I saw something out on the ice. It was a dark shape, moving pretty quickly, and pretty big. My first thought was that it was a snowmobile until I realized it didn't have any lights on and there was almost a flowing kind of motion to it. When I drove past to a place where I could see better, it was completely gone.

I thought that was strange, but didn't give it a whole lot of thought until later, when I mentioned it to one of my coworkers. She held up a finger and waved it at me and said. "That was a polar bear."

"Kind of a funny shape for a polar bear," I said. She shook her head.

"You aren't going to see a white bear on the ice in the moonlight," she said. "You saw his shadow."

I blinked at her. She went on.

"When you couldn't see him anymore? That was when he had stopped moving and was looking at you."

"So...." I gave that some thought. "Six more weeks of winter?"

She snorted something and we both trudged out into the -50 windchill.