When the morning light cast a golden rim across the snowfield, Guan Yao was squatting in the snow, removing the cold-weather housing from her camera.
The camera's memory card emitted a soft click as she inserted it into the portable mini-card reader, watching the aurora photographs pop up one by one in thumbnail form on her phone screen.
The pale purple bands of light flowed across the electronic screen, almost overlapping with the breathtaking brilliance she had witnessed with her own eyes last night.
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