I looked at the melting frost on the floor, the remains of the gift that had saved us, or perhaps doomed us to something stranger than death.

On the other side wasn't the void. It wasn't the starless black of space. It was a light. A brilliant, terrifying column of white descending from the sky, bypassing the shields, ignoring the laws of physics. It touched the deck plating about twenty meters out.

In a world of fast fashion and instant updates, "freezing" a moment is a power move. To claim a date like 23 12 22 is to say that everything that happened then is still relevant today. It’s an archive that refuses to stay in the past.

: Users can select a gift they wish to freeze. This could be from an online store, a digital marketplace, or even a physical gift registry.