19-1-17

Constance watched the freeze building on itself drop-by-drop until her grapes were covered in armor. It took 19 hours to coat the vines. Her homemade ice wine will take much longer than that. How many people will she meet and lose before that first glassful hits her tum-tum? Three? Nineteen? When you are watching raindrops slowly form into thick shells on your world, there is time to think.