The Warmest, Prologue

This is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, reimagined in a near-future Antarctica where climate catastrophe has outpaced denial.

Dr. Parvez, a climate scientist from Gilgistan, once stood at the center of a global summit, presenting evidence that glacier ice was being illegally harvested and sold as luxury cocktail cubes. His research was met not with inquiry, but erasure. Discredited by his former friend Arsalan, a therapist who branded him mentally unstable, and betrayed by a billionaire named Ali whose empire thrived on melted legacy, Parvez withdrew from the world.

He founded Barafzaar—a hidden outpost on the Antarctic shelf. Isolated from political systems and economic agendas, it became a refuge built on frozen principles: silence, survival, and the hope that truth would thaw its own way back.

Now, years later, a luxury yacht carrying those who once buried Parvez’s name has crashed into the icy veil that hides Barafzaar. Onboard: Arsalan, Ali, his journalist son Fardeen, and two influencers named Safeer and Tabish chasing viral content in a climate they barely understand, and of course Mr.Ghouse a trusted and optimistic friend of Dr.Parvez.Then there is Sabeih ,Ali’s brother-in-law—a man who once managed the family’s offshore assets and now sees the shipwreck as a chance to seize control. He is bitter, calculating, and quietly resentful of Ali’s legacy.

Within Barafzaar, Parvez lives with his daughter Meera, an ice sculptor who carves melting monuments to remember what others forget. Their companions include Arbaaz, a sentient AI once designed to obey capitalism but now committed to conscience, and Carbaan—the last surviving Neanderthal, unearthed from the thaw and quietly watching the modern world repeat its oldest mistakes.

The story is narrated by Ice—a silent witness to centuries of truth, grief, and betrayal. Ice remembers everything. And this time, it refuses to stay quiet.

This is not a story of spells or storm-tossed romance. It is a story of reckoning—between betrayal and belief, science and silence, warmth and consequence.

Note: Warmest: Barafzaar – The Price of Ice unfolds in multiple parts. The narrative is structured in acts and scenes, each revealing new fractures of truth and thaw.

This prologue introduces the world and its tensions. The story begins in Act I, Scene I, where the storm has already passed— and consequence has started to settle in.

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