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Date & Time: January 2nd
Location: Exsilium, snowfield.
Characters: Sora and Lloyd Irving
Summary: The saddest attempt at a snowman you'll ever see.
Warnings: Look away if you have a fear of snowmen??

[Sora should be training. ]

[He knows that he should, but really? Training gets so boring when all you're doing is slashing your keyblade at air. Not only that, but even after doing it for awhile he just felt stupid instead of getting better. It wasn't like enemies were easy to hit as air]

[So instead he's slacking off, not too far away from the forge. He's attempting yet again to build a snowman. But, being a boy from a land that never got snow, he's really...not doing too well in that field either. In fact, his snowman looks closer to just an ugly, deformed lump of snow on the ground- no matter how much he works at it]

[And even he seems to get it's wrong, as when he pulls back and looks at it while warming up his fingers]

That...doesn't look very right.

[Augh, why was working with snow so hard?! ]

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[Lloyd wants to get the forge finished and ready almost as much as the dwarves do. It's a taste of home -- not just of Aselia, but of Dirk and the forest -- that he hasn't had in a long, long time. But breaks are important, especially in weather like this.

He rolls tension out of his shoulder as he wanders out into the snow, and-- oh. He manages not to laugh, but he can't help the grin.]

Hey, uh. Need some help?

[He knows the basics, at least. Kind of. Iselia never got snow, not as close to Triet as it was, but he had spent all the precious downtime he'd had in Flanoir convincing anyone and everyone to help him learn.]

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[At this point, Sora had been mulling over if he could use ice magic to cheat with this endeavor. Sure, he only knew how to shoot icicles at things but he could work it right?]

[But he'll be thankfully torn away from that thought process when he hears someone talking to him. Hey, that's one of the guys at the forge right? L something...?]

Uh-

[He looks back at his pathetic pile of snow. then back to lloyd. Guess there's no hiding this failure]

Sure! Do you know how to do this?

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Well... kind of. I got someone to teach me once. Here.

[He stoops, gathering some of the snow into a ball.]

The best way to do it is to roll it, I know that much.

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Roll it? You sure?

[HE SOUNDS VERY SKEPTICAL. HOW IS THE ANSWER ROLLING IF ITS A STATUE LLOYD???]

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Yeah! It'll get bigger, and then you stack it. Just watch.

[He struggles a bit to get the right leverage on it, but eventually he's able to roll larger amounts of snow onto it.

... Except he forgets the part where you have to roll it in different directions, and it ends up more oval than spherical.]

-- Um. Something like this, anyway.

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[Is watching! Which hey, he seems sincerely surprised and awed when it does work]

Hey it does work!

[LLOYD IS AWESOME-- oh wait now it's an oval]

Uh- maybe try rolling it around another way!

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Yeah, yeah! That's how it works. So--

[He does so, and now it seems to be coming out halfway decent.

He points to a random patch of snow.]

Here, you do the next one. Just make sure it's smaller than this one.

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[Lloyd you are both his hero and MAGICAL. He gives a salute of great enthusiasm!]

Okay!

[He heads over to that patch and tries to do as Lloyd does. Make a ball, and roll it. It's very clumsy and he sure isn't good at keeping it in a straight line, but he's doing his best!!]

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[Lloyd finishes up his section and then pauses to watch, leaning slightly on the snow.]

Make sure it's over here when you finish! Otherwise we're gonna have to carry it all the way over.

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Oh. Good idea!

[Except, he was nearly finished and far far away from Lloyd. So he tries rolling back over to Lloyd and by the time he's over there, it's nearly the same size as his]

Uh, oops? Heh heh.

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[Lloyd frowns, inspecting it.]

Uh... huh. Well, that's okay. We can just make it have two instead of three. [Beat.] It can be kind of a chubby snowman, I guess.

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Heh...yeah that works!

[Not that he has any clue what makes a chubby or slim snowman, but whatever if Lloyd is doing it he'll go with it!]

So now what?

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Now... this! [He stoops to get his hands underneath the ball. He could lift it easily enough with the Exsphere, but this is a team sport.] Here help me lift it.