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[respect_points47]

[It has already been snowing for a day before Rikku decided it would be interesting enough to go out and see. She really isn't a big fan of the cold. In fact, she would rather be back home in the desert, but it's pretty enough to make it okay to go outside.

She doesn't go far though, but she ends up seated on the ground, right in front of the fountain. For a while she's just playing with the snow, but she's a quick learner when it comes to making snowmen. But she just can't leave it there, she has to add ice to the mix...The end result is a snowman surrounded by a clear ball of ice neatly sitting on the edge of the fountain....and it's a fairly decent size.

Hopefully people like pretty ice things.


Later in the day, when she's back being nice and warm in her room]

I have a weird request. Would anybody be good at cutting holes in some clothes for my wings while I'm wearing them? It's sorta confusing to explain, but it would be very helpful, and I promise I will do something for you in return...since there's no money here. I just really don't want to have them binded again...that hurt.
 

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[respect_points47]

That looks hard.

[Though it's not like she really knows. This is her first experience with the stuff, and making a snowman was hard enough.]

...I don't have a hat...

[But she can think of something better! She get's up, grabs a good handful of snow, and proceeds to give it a mohawk. To remind her of her brother.]

[aqueousliving]

[It's not difficult. But he keeps the thought to himself, focusing on smoothing out the shape of his sculpture. If Haruka hadn't been Haruka, he'd think the mohawk snowman is pretty rad! But, alas, he just thinks it's weird.

A thought occurs to him, but he keeps his gaze on his own handiwork.]

The ice ball needs something.

[It looks a bit out of place next to the mohawked snowman, dressed in his scarf. Maybe she can do something about that. By this time, Haruka's sculpture is starting to take the rough shape of a dolphin, his gloved hands working on shaping the dolphin's snout.]

[respect_points47]

[Well she's proud of herself, and it looks pretty good too! She'll even dig out some of the snow with her fingers to give it a face.]

More ice?

[Because she can do that...and probably nothing else. Though she does have her knives on her, easily seen being strapped at both sides of her hips. They didn't quite fit into the pockets.]

[aqueousliving]

[When once, he might have been irritated at all the questions breaking his concentration, now it's just mild annoyance that isn't even worth dwelling on. Haruka looks over the dorsal fin he's shaping, gaze sketching between the ball of ice and the stranger, resting briefly on the knives.]

Or carving.

[It'll probably blunt her knives but she probably knows that, right?]

[respect_points47]

Carving?

[She sees what he's doing to the snow, but she just can't imagine doing that to ice.]

[aqueousliving]

[His gaze returns to her knives, as if willing her to take notice of them. Frustratingly, Makoto isn't here to speak for him and answer her question, so he's somewhat forced to respond, voice as flat and disinterested as ever.]

You cut it into shapes. Or cut shapes into it.

[respect_points47]

[Oh she knows that they're there. She has one of her hands on one, but she still can't see it.]

So it's like a backwards way to make a sand castle.

[Yes, a sand castle. She lives in the desert, and has made many of them.]

[aqueousliving]

[Haruka just gives a grunt, not committing an opinion either way on her strange train of thought, crouching to shape the tail of his dolphin.

But really his main thought's, Are you going to do anything to the ice or not?]

[respect_points47]

[Well after a moment of thinking, she takes the knife and quickly cuts though the top of the sphere, maybe about three inches from the top, without any trouble at all.

Her knifes are stronger than you might think...and she's been messing with fire magic.]

oh geez, i'm so sorry for the long wait

[aqueousliving]

[Cheater!!1!

That's a start. He's curious to see what she'll do next with the ice not-quite-globe, so he's keeping an eye on her as he finishes his dolphin snow sculpture, intending to possibly interfere if she cannot come up with more improvements to the ice.]

S'okay!

[respect_points47]

[No! It's called being awesome!

She'll make a few cuts, the fire magic possibly visible around her knives, but she's only doing it so nothing cracks where she wouldn't want it to. And when she done, it looks like a decent outline of a castle.]

[aqueousliving]

[If Haruka had been the sort, he'd show some outward sign of being impressed. As it stands, with his dolphin snow sculpture finished, he watches the stranger at work, stepping forward only to more closely examine the ice castle, though he examines the part on the opposite side to the stranger's current position.]

For your first time, it's good.

[That's about as close to approval as she's going to get from him. His gaze flickers to the daggers.]

Did you use magic for that?

[respect_points47]

[Well it's enough approval to make her smile! She puts her knives back away under her shirt. She thinks it's best not to go running around with weapons shown. Could freak someone out.]

Uh-huh! I've been learning fire magic since I got here.

[She'll even be using it to smooth out the edges of the castle, so it'll actually look like one.]

[aqueousliving]

[Haruka personally doesn't have much interest in magic. It's not something that exists back in his world, but it's also not really something related to swimming. Therefore, irrelevant.

He keeps his gaze on her handiwork, though he asks, voice flat.]

You couldn't learn it at home?

[respect_points47]

I had a way of learning it back home, but I wasn't lucky enough to find it here.

[She has her white magic, and that was really enough. But it is freaking cold here, especially for someone who likes the desert more, and fire magic sounded like it could come in handy.]

[aqueousliving]

[His gaze slides from the ice castle to the stranger.]

How are you learning it here?

[Haruka vaguely recalls some mention of spirits in Luceti, but he's never looked further into that, even if Trunks had shown interest in it.]

[respect_points47]

The fire spirit that's hee. It was a jerk at first, but I really wanted to learn.

[And she knows how to deal with mean people, so a mean spirit wasn't to bad.]

[aqueousliving]

[Hm.]

Did you learn ice magic here, too?

[respect_points47]

Just started. I know it back home, so I knew how to make it into a ball.

[aqueousliving]

[That's all Haruka really wanted to know. Since he's finished his snow sculpture and he doesn't have much reason to stick around other than to talk to this girl (and he's already exhausted all the conversation he wants) and watch her progress, Haruka turns to leave.

Kinda rude but that's just how he is.]

[respect_points47]

[Oh, she knows how to deal with people like that very well. She doesn't even stop what she's doing.]

What? No 'oh hey, by the way my name is this, and I can make really cool snow sculptures.'

Not nice!

[aqueousliving]

[NOPE. Haruka doesn't care if he's being rude and easily shrugs off being called not nice.

He's not going to stop walking off unless she makes him stop.]

[respect_points47]

[She won't trip him or anything, but she'll give it one last shot with throwing a well packed snowball to the back of his head.]

[aqueousliving]

[...Oh no.

She didn't.

Haruka stops. There is simply no way he's taking that lying down. Oh no. Is it a snowball fight she wants? Well even if she doesn't, she's totally going to get one.

Crouching, he packs his own snowball, and when he turns, he returns fire!

...Though it's probably easy to avoid since it's fairly easy to see it coming.]

[respect_points47]

[Oh, yes.

She did!

And she's already making another to chuck at him when he turns around, right before ducking behind his snow sculpture...should be safe...

WILL YOU HIT IT FOR REVENGE?!]