There's already a decent layer of snow on the ground as you approach the snowperson. You notice they're moving along quite slowly, seemingly lost in thought. You ask how they’re doing and the snowperson explains they're having a hard time concentrating because they can’t stop thinking about their myriad past lives. A snowperson, you learn, is a kind of a colony animal, with each individual snowflake contributing a small part of its aggregate consciousness, and each snowflake retains a memory of all the snowpeople they once were. This cloud of self-awareness makes it hard for the snowperson, or rather the snow multi-being-temporal-presence, to focus. Touched by their plight, you offer...