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monochromatically) wrote2021-12-17 01:00 am
monochromatically) wrote2021-12-17 01:00 am
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Aterat Winter Celebration Drafts
Tree Decorating
Mono still avoided the lodge most of the time… But when there was a celebration going on and it was decorated, with more than a few people he knew present, he would venture forth with a little more security. It was a good way for him to get used to the place that shared a similar name with a place in his world where very bad things had happened.
Still… The child couldn’t help but feel like he was more than a little confused. Perhaps even more than the wedding.
Decorating trees?
This was another strange thing that he didn’t quite understand. Trees were outside things! A place for animals like birds and squirrels and other stuff to live in! Why would you bring them indoors? This whole celebration thing was so very odd to Mono, but he was doing his best to learn about it when people talked about it.
Holding up a round, shiny ornament, he looked at his reflection on its surface. “Wow, this is shiny…” he tilted his head one way, then another as he watched himself warp slightly in the rounded reflection. “Still kinda strange… Like it’s pretty, but weird…” He mumbled on to himself as he put the ball down and began looking at other decorations. “And a little familiar…”
Mono thought he might have seen boxes of these in an attic once. Covered in dust and a few of them broken. But they hadn’t really meant anything at the time. Did anyone do things like this in his world before the corruption?
That train of thought was interrupted as he tugged at a strand of garland resting on the floor, blinking a moment later. “Shiny colourful rope? Do you gotta tie up the trees too?”
Playing in the snow. - Take your pick of snowmen or snowforts!
Mono was rather enjoying this snow thing now that he had shoes and warming clothing to wear. He even dared to try some of the interesting games he’d seen other children playing last winter when he arrived!
Snow people were still kind of creepy, in his opinion, but rolling the snow and piling it was still pretty fun. So anyone who happened upon the child would be greeted by the sight of about three to four very strange attempts at it. He even put a couple of hats from the collection that he’d stowed away in his coat on their heads, decorating their faces with rocks, acorns or pine-cones he’d found. The one he was currently working on was still taking shape, only one misshapen snowball finished.
If one were to show up later on in the afternoon, investigation might also reveal that he’d built them in such a way that they guarded another particular construct he’d been working on. A snow fort.
Mono still avoided the lodge most of the time… But when there was a celebration going on and it was decorated, with more than a few people he knew present, he would venture forth with a little more security. It was a good way for him to get used to the place that shared a similar name with a place in his world where very bad things had happened.
Still… The child couldn’t help but feel like he was more than a little confused. Perhaps even more than the wedding.
Decorating trees?
This was another strange thing that he didn’t quite understand. Trees were outside things! A place for animals like birds and squirrels and other stuff to live in! Why would you bring them indoors? This whole celebration thing was so very odd to Mono, but he was doing his best to learn about it when people talked about it.
Holding up a round, shiny ornament, he looked at his reflection on its surface. “Wow, this is shiny…” he tilted his head one way, then another as he watched himself warp slightly in the rounded reflection. “Still kinda strange… Like it’s pretty, but weird…” He mumbled on to himself as he put the ball down and began looking at other decorations. “And a little familiar…”
Mono thought he might have seen boxes of these in an attic once. Covered in dust and a few of them broken. But they hadn’t really meant anything at the time. Did anyone do things like this in his world before the corruption?
That train of thought was interrupted as he tugged at a strand of garland resting on the floor, blinking a moment later. “Shiny colourful rope? Do you gotta tie up the trees too?”
Playing in the snow. - Take your pick of snowmen or snowforts!
Mono was rather enjoying this snow thing now that he had shoes and warming clothing to wear. He even dared to try some of the interesting games he’d seen other children playing last winter when he arrived!
Snow people were still kind of creepy, in his opinion, but rolling the snow and piling it was still pretty fun. So anyone who happened upon the child would be greeted by the sight of about three to four very strange attempts at it. He even put a couple of hats from the collection that he’d stowed away in his coat on their heads, decorating their faces with rocks, acorns or pine-cones he’d found. The one he was currently working on was still taking shape, only one misshapen snowball finished.
If one were to show up later on in the afternoon, investigation might also reveal that he’d built them in such a way that they guarded another particular construct he’d been working on. A snow fort.