Around The Deck, Sunday Afternoon [2.13]

[icecoldfrost]

SOMEHOW Emma seemed to have found a large pile of snow beside the deck. Perhaps it had been pushed there by a plow, or created by a snow-fairy (or mutant). Either way, it was perfect for making snowmen, a fort, and/or a snowball fight.

"Right," Emma said, looking over her assorted charges. She'd make a quick handwavey trip to T&C to ensure everyone had appropriate cold-weather gear. "Remember, hats and coats stay on - I know it's warm, but it's not THAT warm - and no putting snow down another child's coat. I will place you in telepathic time-out if I catch you."

She brushed more snow off a chair on the deck, and threw a towel down before taking a seat. "Now go to it."

[OOC: OPEN SNOWPILE IS OPEN! ALL CHILDREN (AND PARENTS) WELCOME!]

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[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Henry kept trying to take off his mittens, because he didn't need them, really, but he didn't want Auntie Emma to be mad at him.

"Do I really gotta wear all this?" he whined at her.

[icecoldfrost]

"Are you going to get frostbite?" she asked, reasonably. She wasn't just going assume he had his father's particular 'talent.'

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Henry fidgeted. "Noooo?"

<< I'm like Daddy but s'secret, >> he added. Way easier than whispering.

[icecoldfrost]

<<Then you can take your mittens off, but the hat and coat stay on,>> she decided. <<We don't want you getting your clothes and hair all wet.>>

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Henry gleefully pulled his mittens off, because it was so much easier to make snowmen when you had fingers. "Yay! What kinda snowperson are we gonna make, Auntie Emma?" he asked.

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"Yup!" Nommy replied. He lived in Glacia. You were Never S'posed to Take Chances With Weather. You could get all sorts of frostbite and have Mommy, Auntie Raven, and Auntie J yell at you.

"How big can we make the snowman?" he asked. "Like, just a little big? Or super-big?"

[icecoldfrost]

"How about as big as me?" Emma suggested. "Any taller than that, and we can't decorate them easily."

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"I can! I can!" Nommy said jumping up into the air and fluttering around a bit. "I can reach very high!"

[icecoldfrost]

"Okay, we can make it this high above me," Emma laughed, holding up a hand. "But I don't want your mama to yell at me for you flying around so much you get tired!"

....maaaaaaaaaaaybe wearing them out for bed later was the idea, but they didn't need to know that.

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

"But my fingers are hided," Henry complained.

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"So're mine," Nommy said, holding up his mittened hand. "But what if you get frostbited an' your fingers turn all black an' fall off an' wiggle around on the ground like worms!"

Nommy had an excellent imagination for the macabre.

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

Chak had sort of wandered off while he was out with his mom this afternoon, and it hadn't quite occurred to him yet that she might be worried about where he was. (Though Jaina wasn't that far behind him, because you better believe she knew where he was at all times, she was not her mother.) This was especially true when he saw the snow.

"Astral!" he decided. "What are you playing?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Whatever you want to play," Emma said with a shrug. "Henry and I are working on a snowman, but there's plenty to make a fort or something else, or make snowangels."

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

His eyes went wide at hearing the magic word. "I like the fort," he said, already looking for a good spot for it, somewhere easily defendable. Yes, he thought like this. Thanks, Jag. "You want to name it?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Let's see...Fort Fandom is boring," she mused, thinking aloud. "How about what you said first? Fort Astral?"

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"Astral?" Kayla perked up. "I know that word! My Mommy uses it sometimes."

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

"Everyone back home uses it," Chak said. It was a little bit of an exaggeration, but he didn't know that. "Who's your mom?"

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"The Queen of Glacia," Kayla replied immediately.

And helpfully, it might be added.

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

"Can I play in your fort?" Henry asked as he scampered over. "Pleeeease?"

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

"Depends," Chak said. "Are you on my side, or the enemy's side?" It was important to know these things.

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

"...are you the good guys, or are they?" That was a very important question.

[glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com]

For children raised in Glacia, the weather today was considered perfectly fine to play in--almost balmy, really. So once they had been appropriately bundled up, they tumbled outside like puppies happy to play with Auntie Emma in the snow.

Even if Della had never met or heard of Auntie Emma before in her life. Aunt-Lady Karla had said she was a friend and that was good enough for Della. Though she was still a little shy and reserved. That was just her though.

So as Nommy and Kayla went and flung themselves into the snow, Della inched forward and asked, "Do you mind if we play here? I will help keep the other two out of mischief."

[icecoldfrost]

"That's fine," Emma replied, glancing at Della. "Do you want to make some snow angels?"

[glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com]

"...What's an angel?" Della asked, confused.

[icecoldfrost]

"Like this." Emma found a nice section of snow and fell backwards with her arms out, waiting until she landed to move them back and forth. After she was satisfied that her angel had suitable wings, she carefully pulled herself up to maintain the shape.

"See? Like Karla's friend Warren. Angels have big feathery white wings."