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“It’s… hot,” Mila whispered, staring at the empty cone.

It was, by all accounts, the hottest ice cream parlor in the country. And business was booming.

In the heart of Eindhoven, where the summer sun turned the cobblestones into frying pans, there was a small ice cream parlor called Siberia . It was a place of pristine white tiles, a faint whisper of chilled vanilla, and air so cold it raised goosebumps on your arms the second you walked in. een hete ijssalon

Kees looked at the flood of dairy, the broken mop, the defeated Bennie sitting in a puddle of his own inventory. He sighed.

“Welcome to the heat!” he boomed. “What’ll it be?” “It’s… hot,” Mila whispered, staring at the empty

Bennie grabbed a scoop that looked like it had just been pulled from a dishwasher. He attacked the chocolate vat. The ice cream didn’t resist; it surrendered instantly, sliding off the scoop in a sad, viscous rope. He slapped it onto a cone that was already bending under its own humidity.

“We’ll go to Siberia ,” he said.

This story is about De Smeltkroes (The Crucible), which opened three doors down, in the middle of a heatwave that had dogs lying flat on their sides and birds walking instead of flying.