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[GP] SNOW DAY

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.

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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.

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As she had the year before, Corbie had run shrieking delightedly into the snow, bounding into snowbanks with childish abandon and not a care in the world for how wet and cold she'd be later. She was a wizard. Warming up was not difficult.

No her concern right now was throwing snowballs at people who weren't paying attention and when they investigated, looking at them in such a way as to say 'what? I didn't do it' and 'play with me!'

"Nice form. Good distance." Jack nodded in approval, though he waited until her latest victim stopped paying attention so as to not 'out' Corbie.

Not at all worried about whether she was outed or not since the whole point was baiting people anyway, Corbie only turned and batted her eyelashes innocently at the older man. "What, me?"

His lips pressed into a small, subtle smile. "I could say my compliment for someone else, but they probably wouldn't deserve it as much."

Corbie bobbed a playful curtsey--never mind that she wasn't wearing a skirt right now, she'd learned last year, pants were way warmer in the snow--and grinned wide. "Why thank you, sir."

He nodded his head a bit in recognition to her. "Glad to see people enjoying themselves. Most of the time when it snows back home now, people just complain."

"Yeah, well," Corbie tucked a curl behind her ear, even though the way she bounced a moment later popped it right back out of place, "it didn't snow much back home, and it's not like we get snow here much either. Only had one day last indiction, too, and that was also magic. Gotta enjoy it while we got it."

He had been to enough planets that he could suss out what indiction meant, or so he thought, anyways. He supposed that meant this woman wasn't from Earth.

"You know, I have a friend back home who would eye twitch at the mention of magic and insist it's science somehow "

Corbie pulled a face. "Yeah, well. Maybe magic don't exist where you come from, but I'm a wizard."

He held up his hands a little. "Hey, no judgement. I don't even understand have the things she says, so half the time everything looks like magic." Not entirely true - Jack often downplayed his intelligence, but it was hard sometimes when you met someone able to levitate and things like the being they met on the planet with Daniel's son.

Corbie's only answer was to smile quietly and summon a small cloud of witchlights. Felix would have gone for the flower crown effect just to be particularly showy, but that wasn't necessary. The lights floated about her, little glowing purple chrysanthemums that made her dark eyes a startling shade of violet.

He watched them with his eyes, his expression remained neutral from years of meeting weird and strange people and creatures. "That looks like it could come in handy when the power goes out."

Corbie grinned. "It does. Though at home it'd be when the candles burned out."

"Made my own candles once. It was time consuming." He had also made his own nails. Funny how living on another planet with little technology made you learn a bunch of new things. "I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say you're probably not from Earth."

Dismissing her witchlights as easily as she'd summoned them, Corbie frowned lightly at the conclusion. Not that it was wrong just, "What led you to that?"

He rolled slightly on his heels as his hands disappeared into his jean pockets. "Apart from the magic, 'indiction' sort of gave it away." It was possible, perhaps, some ancient culture called it that, but Daniel wasn't here to chime in a correct Jack.

Wasn't that important. Corbie shrugged. "I am. There's people'round here with magic who're from this world, though."

"That I don't doubt." You didn't experience someone turning into a centaur and realize this place didn't have a special sort of set of rules. "Not from mine, though. A particularly unscrupulous part of my government would have definitely been sure to profit on that if it did." And from the sound of his voice, it probably better that magic wasn't real in his world. The NID would be all over that, the bastards.

"World I was born in's called Meduse," Corbie explained, awkwardly tucking a curl behind her ear. "Country called Corambis, city called Bernatha. Or at least, Corambis thinks they've got us, but we never much paid attention to them, it's mostly independent."

It was times like this he really missed having Daniel around. "Doing your own thing is sometimes better than having to listen to the bigwigs who think they know what's good for people."

Which was indeed what some people thought, but from Corbie's view, "Nah, it's more a greed thing. Playing Corambis and Caloxa off each other, and as the trade hub between them, Bernatha profited. Even through two wars, because why the hell not."

She squatted down to scoop up more snow. "Right now, though, important part is that Bernatha was practically in the harbor, so it didn't snow much at all. I got a lot of lost time to make up for."

He gave her a nod and did a small sweeping gesture. "Far be it from me to get between a woman and her goals."

"Good talking to you," Corbie said, before she glanced around for a new target and scampered off after them.

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