"We're having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave," for the HODOWE CHALLENGE

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This is what happens when it's hot and you can't sleep at 3 am becaue you've got too much on your mind... it must have subconsciously coincided with the HODOWE CHALLENGE- National Ice Cream Day.

Napoleon listened in the darkness, hearing Illya toss and turn, sometimes moaning.  He was in his own bed in their hotel room and it was a sweltering hot night.

The whirr of an oscillating fan did nothing to make it feel cooler, all it did was circulate the warm, humid air.

The air conditioner had broken down and later in the evening the hotel sent up a bucket of ice and the fan, advising to set the bucket in front of the fan to help cool the room.

It did for a while but now it was just a bucket of water and given there were other guests in the same predicament, the ice maker in the kitchen was overwhelmed and it too went on the fritz, same as the air conditioner.

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