[GP] SNOW DAY

[st_ratagem]

Thor and Loki got an early start, because there was a lot to do. Almost two weeks to the day since their first small-but-successful experiment with snow, Loki was confident that he'd improved enough for a bigger experiment. Still snow, because Thor wanted it and it did seem like a decent way to try something big-ish without causing Loki unnecessary grief with the other residents. (It was an arrival day, so there would perhaps be some grief with any new arrivals, but that was entirely acceptable.)

It was before dawn when they went out into the grounds. Thor called up clouds and loaded them with water so they hung low and heavy, covering the sky so that the sun, when it rose, wouldn't ruin the event. Loki took his frost giant shape and staff (now very familiar to his hand) and concentrated on dropping the temperature. Just around the Inn and grounds, but that was enough to be serious effort.

When the snow first started, the flakes were big and wet, and melted as soon as they hit the ground, which was still on the warm side. As they melted, they cooled the ground. After an hour or so, the flakes were smaller and more powdery - real snow, not glorified slush - and they were starting to stick to the ground.

By mid-morning, the Inn and grounds were covered with a thick layer of snow, and it continued to fall.

***

Meanwhile, indoors and inspired by the snow, Hurley and Xavin decided to try and make cookies. Cooking together was fun, since neither of them exactly knew what they were doing apart from 'follow the recipe', but since the point was 'try to make cookies' they ended up with a lot of cookies. Sugar cookies, gingerbread, all kinds.

There was no way they'd be able to eat all of them.

Instead, they loaded them onto trays and hauled them to the cafe, then brought out various frostings and candies for decorating. This had been completely intentional. Completely.

Comments

[st_raightontilmorning]

"The floor was lava?" This place just gets stranger the more he hears about it. "Killian Jones." He holds up his left hand too as his right shakes hers. "Sometimes known as Captain Hook."

Hook & Sunny

[st_igmatized]

"Unfortunate nickname that stuck or...?" Sunny wasn't sure how to finish that question. Given everything else that happened around here it shouldn't be absurd to think he was the Captain Hook from the story, but it was a level of suspending disbelief that hadn't been demanded of her yet. Even with a girl named Snow White around, all you had to do was look at her to know she wasn't a princess, let alone one with skin pale as snow.

Hook & Sunny

[st_raightontilmorning]

"It was appropriate. And it came with a sort of reputation." He'd cared about that once. Lately he's been working harder on proving that he's not the same as that reputation, that he can be better. "The first person who used it didn't know what to call me otherwise, and after that, it stuck."