[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.

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Re: Xavin and Mack

[st_oryboard]

Mack chuckled. "That's true." He picked up his own gingerbread man and icing bag. "I just usually buy them already done back home."

Re: Xavin and Mack

[st_artliving]

"Perhaps the decorating will be more fun," Xavin offered. "I am enjoying it, although it is not the tidiest activity I have ever pursued. They really are traditional, then? These cookies?"

Re: Xavin and Mack

[st_oryboard]

"they are. My grandfather and I have them every Christmas. It was new for him. He was from Japan." Mack explained, "and it's not traditional there. Christmas isn't really traditional there either." He chuckled, "They do have Soba boro cookies which is buckwheat instead of gingerbread, but they're close."

Re: Xavin and Mack

[st_artliving]

Xavin nodded. "I am from Tarnax VII which of course does not have Christmas at all, and my Christmases on Earth before arriving here were... not traditional. It is interesting to see all the rituals. And the decorations! They are... sparkly."

Re: Xavin and Mack

[st_oryboard]

"They can be." Mack agreed, "especially if you use these." He picked up a couple of the sprinkles that looked like ball bearings and put them on the face of his gingerbread.

"Do you celebrate your holidays on Earth or did you stop celebrating what you're used to when you came to this planet?"