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I suppose so, and—goodness, there's even more in here? Honestly, it seems like you could even just spend a whole day indoors here, too...

...but oh, there's skis over here. I wonder if I should get more creative on additions to the dorm, honestly.

Ohh, we should get hot cocoa later...

[He's wandering over to the rentals and looking at ski jackets and fleece, for warmth]

Bet you could ask for a quiet brook near the woods, somewhere sunny... nice stuff, like that.

Oh—something like that... it would be nice, you're right. It'd be a nice place to sit, even in the winter...

[ she pulls down a coat to check it for size and warmness, and tries it on. ]

I don't know if you'd be interested in some kind of shared space ever, for the two of us...?

[His head perks up when he hears that, eyes alight]

Really? That's-- what should we get??

I hadn't really thought it through, but maybe some kind of connected courtyard would be nice. Could have a garden, some shade trees, some exercise equipment.

...although I promised Gold a receiving room first that we can flood to flush out anyone who's being rude.

Flood? Holy shit, could we actually do that? [He laughs, slipping on a ski jacket,] What'm I saying, of course we could. With dragons at the gate and gators in the moat, I bet.

A garden sounds beautiful... Somewhere t'just relax and. Be with you.

[His cheeks tint with pink, with a wistful air to him]

Sort of like... a little home inside home, you could say.

...it really is nice to just... spend time one-on-one with you. It's... comfortable like... coming home out of the cold into a warm place, I guess.

[He takes a warm, fuzzy toque and affectionately puts it on Shrike's head, even if he has to lean up on his toes a bit.]

Or like walking through the door after a long trip. That weight on your shoulders' gone and everything feels lighter.

[ she pats at the hat a little bit, charmed, and then looks over, picks up a scarf that matches his eyes, and drapes it around his neck. ]

Mm. Coming home, wherever I am.

The blue looks good on you, by the way.

Every day I regret not picking blue for my position.

[He wraps the scarf snugly around him and zips everything up. Maximum warmth!

Next... the most important decision of all... he stares at the rack of snow equipment]

Snowshoe, ski... snowboard...

...I don’t know how a snowboard works, but... it has the right sort of look for something you’d like.

[ she is herself picking out some skis because she at least vaguely knows how those are supposed to work. ]

Well, who am I t'deny my aesthetic?

[He picks the coolest looking snowboard on the rack, of course.]

All right, I'm all set!

[ she eventually settles on skis from the section labeled for beginners, because, listen, she has zero pride.

but also she did try and find some ones with a gold-trim avante pattern. for the aesthetic. ]

I think I'm good to go, too, so—time to see what we can figure out, I guess?

I'm ready to practice falling facefirst into the snow.

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