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Today's reserves meeting? Was so totally starting off indoors today. The leaders had set up a table with hot chocolate and hot coffee (the water had been heated in one of those convenient fireplaces that had appeared) in the lobby of the dorms. Because, really, who wanted to be out in that?

Crazy people, that was who!

"Heya, guys!" Crazy people like Zack, who was standing there with his usual short-sleeved attire, grinning at the people gathered. "I guess you've probably all noticed the weather, huh?" And the cold. Yes, Zack. "Stuff like this doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's important to know how to handle ourselves in it. Dealing with problems that crop up in inclement weather like this might seem like a Support job at a glance, but if something hits the island, we're the ones that have to be out there in it, so we really have to know how to prepare ourselves for the worst, when the worst has muck like this falling from the sky to help it along."

Well someone here was used to no electricity, so this was hardly a blip on the radar of ohdeargodswhy. Maladicta shot Zack and his short sleeves a look before continuing on with the discussion. "Being able to defend against attack in the most extreme of conditions are something you all should learn to do. Consider this a dry run in case yetis attack."

Yes, yetis. Or even worse... Time monks.

Kennedy had probably read something about time monks in one of her Watcher's books. Or maybe it was demon monks. Whatever; all that stuff sort of ran together for her after a while. Anyway, she definitely didn't look like she was up to her usual mood standards today, but dammit, she was trying. So... basically, she was all serious-face. "Especially if you're not used to fighting in snow," she put in. "From a world without it, or the wrong climate, or whatever. It'll mess up your footing, for one, and you're gonna have to figure out how to keep warm and stay mobile enough to be effective." Unless you were Zack and didn't believe in sleeves. Or Gabrielle, or something.

"So, if you guys aren't already dressed for it," et tu, Zack? "then go and grab your winter gear and pull it on! It might still be snowing like crazy out there, but that's what the hot chocolate and coffee is for! We? Are totally going to have a snowball fight!"

Yes. He did pose when he said that. Would you expect any less?

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Have some coffee! Warm, warm coffee. Mmmmm.

Oh, yes, Alexander would be huddling around some warm coffee today. It wasn't so much that he minded snow and cold weather, of course, but, let's be honest, he was certainly glad that, if it had snowed in Llewdor, it was most likely because Manannan had messed up a spell or gotten angry at poor Gwydion's ineptitude at emptying his bedpan, and so his punishment was having to shovel snow from the treacherous cliff paths leading to the tower.

Ahh, those were the days...Ahem.

Well, at least he had plenty of scarves.

Cally had already been given permission to skip class due to the weather; voluntarily going out to spend time in it seemed like sending injury and illness an engraved invitation.

The nice thing about a cup of coffee was that it was thoroughly multitaskable: she could drink it and stare over the rim at Zack like he was thoroughly insane at the same time.

Goose did not like the cold, regardless of how much of his Supertrooper training had required him to become accustomed to the various elements.

He was definitely helping himself to some coffee today.

If you're daring enough to brave the blizzard!

Leda cheated just a bit. She magicked her winter gear into being white, just like the snow. Then she hunkered down behind a snow drift and looked for a victim.

When they tag in!

Maladicta was just going to stick with staying indoors. Where turning into a snowman, abominable or otherwise, was less likely to happen.

Light activity like a snowball fight or not, Kennedy wasn't really up to any sort of combat today, and she wasn't even sure she'd be sticking around for the duration of the meeting. (Yeah, yeah, some leader, whatever.)

For now, she'd stick to hanging out in the lobby with her coffee.

Dru was less interested in a snowball fight and more interested in finding out exactly what was going on.

"Okay, you all looked wrecked in class yesterday, and you don't look that much better today. What the hell happened?"

"Hey," Kennedy said tiredly, giving her a weak smile over her coffee cup. "Some stuff went down over the weekend. It, uh. Didn't go well. Kinda really not, like at all. Sort of on the scale of what happened when me and Dinah went to South Dakota with you, not-well."

South Dakota not well? Crap... Dru tried to suppress an involuntary shudder at the memories that were never too far away. "That bad? Damn. Is everyone okay?"

Kennedy chewed on her lower lip for a moment, but gave Dru an apologetic look for having brought that up again.

"Not to speak for everyone, but... well. We're all still in one piece." Except for Raven, anyway. She swallowed. "That's something, right?"

"It gives you a place to start putting yourself back together again," she agreed. "But I'm not quite buying it. Everyone's looks too strung out. I mean come on, you haven't said one sarcastic thing to me yet." Which was a tiny bit of humor Kennedy could ignore if she choose.

"Saving it up," Kennedy replied, with... hey, a tiny hint of sarcasm. "Sorry, Dru. Kinda can't get my head into being a smartass right now. Which, hi, probably obvious."

She took another sip of the coffee then set it aside, drawing her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around her legs. "We went to rescue Raven. Didn't so much succeed."

"I'm not asking you to," Dru promised. "I'm just saying that the fact that you're not is a sure sign something is wrong. Which, yeah. God, poor Raven." She didn't know the other girl well, but she'd seemed nice and Dru knew that she and Kennedy were close.

A bit awkwardly because yeah, people skills weren't her strong point, she reached to lightly rest a hand on Kennedy's shoulder in comfort. "I'm sorry."

"So am I," Kennedy admitted hoarsely, leaning into Dru's hand just a bit. "I feel like a giant ball of sorry right now. I can't stop going over everything in my head and fixing it. Just, you know, too fucking late."

Yeah... she was pretty sure Dru knew exactly what she meant.

Sighing, because oh yes, Dru most definitely got that. She tightened her fingers on Kennedy's shoulder in comfort. "It gets better. Not tomorrow, or the next day, or even next week. But it does get better. Sort of..." At least the nightmares faded to an every few week occurrence instead of night.

"That's something, at least." Kennedy swallowed hard; it was something, but 'eventually' wasn't a huge comfort to someone with her lack of patience. "We lost. God. I hate this feeling."

Yeah, they'd defeated a demon, and that was supposed to be cause for celebration, but dammit, not at that price.

"I know," she said quietly, lost in some of her own memories. "It's supposed to be different. If you watch the movies there's always some last minute thing that saves the day. Except sometimes real life isn't like the movies."

"Sometimes like most of it," Kennedy said just a little bitterly.

"I know," Dru agreed. "It sucks." She wished her grandmother was here. She always knew what to say. Right now anything Dru could think of felt like meaningless platitudes.

"And not," Kennedy added, trying desperately for some of her usual sarcastic humor, "in the fun way. Can't have it all, I guess."

Zack was totally clinging to his hot chocolate between bouts of snowballs. Okay, sure, so he wasn't actually feeling very cold... But who could possibly turn down chocolate?

Ugh. Do not want work today.

Fighting Reserves: Dorm Lobby, After Classes (Tuesday Afternoon)

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