Snow falls silently outside the cabin window of vertical reality. Inside, the fireplace crackles. She warms cold hands between her thighs first—then keeps them there. In vertical reality, firelight dances over goosebump-covered skin turning pink with heat and desire. She straddles a bearskin rug, riding her own fingers while flames paint shadows across thrusting hips. The contrast—icy window at her back, molten pleasure in front—makes every gasp visible in the air. When release shatters through her in vertical reality, she collapses forward, hair singeing slightly at the tips, laughing breathlessly at how perfectly vertical reality burned her alive.