1 Dec 2021, 02:32
First Snowfall Snowball Fights
@Eliphas Dune
The first snowfall of the year was a favorite of Edme's. As much as she liked fall, they couldn't help but obsess over the feel of fresh snow decorating your eyelashes and littering your hair.
She likes to reuse clothes, no matter the season. She had on a chocolate brown chore jacket she had gotten for her birthday just a few months before they came to Hogwarts. Underneath was a warm, black, wool turtleneck she had always likes for winter. She had on simple, night blue jeans at were cuffed at the ankle, just above her brown doc martens. Her light brown hair was tucked nicely under an orange hat she had borrowed from one of her dorm mates. Her bangs bounced out though, covered in bits of fallen snow.
The grounds were covered in nothing but white, cold snow. It crunched lightly under Edme's feet as they struggled to step in the mess. Her gloved hands were tucked away in their coat pockets, hiding from the chill.
Any trees in sight were no longer green, but bright, thick whites. The walls of the castle were covered in sheets of frost and even ice at points. It was definitely much warmer inside, as Edme had noticed while marveling at the decor of the great hall.
A group of 3rd years were playing rock, paper, scissors on who had to lie down in the snow and make a snow angel. One of the girls lost and slowly fell into the snow, shivering as she flapped her hands up and down quickly. Once she got up, her purple hair was soaking wet and she was rushing inside for some source of warmth. Edme let herself laugh, looking at the ground and watching her footprints engrave themselves in the snow.
They began wishing she had a friend out here to share the pretty weather with, like one of her dorm mates or people she's collected along the way. It was hard to tell, but she decided these people could count as her friends. Not much shame in admiting the shared admiration between people. They could proudly say she had found quite a few people in her time at Hogwarts so far.
Her breath came out in little clumps of smoke. They found their breathing to become less patterned as they played with the cold bits of fog that emerged from her mouth. What could she say? It was amusing!
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[quote] Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge
|Edme Achillean|
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|Edme Achillean|
2 Dec 2021, 11:41
First Snowfall Snowball Fights
Winter in the Highlands was a whole lot different from Lancashire, that was for certain! Typically it didn't snow until later in the season, February, sometimes even March. But right on the dot, just as December rolled around, a thick blanket of snow had settled all around. It was chill in the Ravenclaw Tower at night, and his favourite spot beside the hearth had become rather crowded as a result.
As much as it was a pain to be around such frigid weather, his boots were forever soaked and his hair perpetually damp, Eliphas Dune was still utterly delighted by it all. A winter wonderland, right outside the doors of the castle!
When he headed out that day he was bundled up to the nines, his usual woolen jumper was covered by an equally woolen overcoat, complete with hood. Yet even so beneath that hood he wore a winter hat, and beneath his sleeves he wore knit gloves that kept his fingers from falling off entirely. His usual shoes were replaced with slightly more cumbersome boots, the type he'd often worn when hiking with his parents. The only common sight happened to be his jeans, a staple of his non-school attire here at Hogwarts.
The snow crunched loudly underfoot, leaving imprints behind him in the areas that were not already downtrodden by fellow students. The grounds were beautiful, and he took it all in with a grin he couldn't quite shake. He picked up the pace as much as he was comfortable to, careful not to slid around on any disguised ice, and soaked it all in.
Then he spotted a friendly face among the crowd!
"Edme!" They weren't too far away, so he felt comfortable raising his voice just a little to get their attention. "Isn't this just brilliant?"
Crossing the grass between them, he approached her with a certain excitement to his steps. Already snow angels littered the ground, and a few hats and scarves had been dutifully sacrificed for the sake of some snowman or another. It was nice to know that even here, kids wanted to have their fun in the snow!@Edme Achillian
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3 Dec 2021, 20:52
First Snowfall Snowball Fights
@Eliphas Dune
Edme was just about to head back inside and cuddle up on the Ravenclaw couch with a warm cup of hot chocolate and a fuzzy blanket when a familiar voice rang through the grounds and brought her back to earth.
"Eliphas!" she waved her hand by her face, a small gesture to greet her friend, "It really is. There's snow all over!"
She motioned to the grounds and hills, eyes sparkling with joy. This is exactly what they had been waiting for! Maybe now they could make snowmen, or snow angels! They could walk around the grounds and make drawings in the snow, or even have a snowball fight! They had missed playing in the snow, and was itching to get a perfectly circular ball of it.
"It makes the grounds feel so alive! I would barely recognize it if I had seen it in a photo." she laughed a bit, much more excited with another here.
A year or two back, they had made friends with a girl who loved to make snow forts. Whenever winter came around, she would always pack the snow into brick-like pieces and stack them up until she had a huge wall. Then another kid would always kick it down, but she always built them back up. It was almost admirable.
"What do you like to do in the snow? I personally really like snow forts." what could they say? She was an easily influenced person and that girl had slightly rubbed off on her.
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[quote] Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge
|Edme Achillean|
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|Edme Achillean|