[Mingle Post] Holidays

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Who: Everyone! Open to All
What: Holiday Mingle Log
When: the holiday season
Where: Locations in comments, or add your own.

Tonight, dreams take the form of the winter holidays. Everything is imagined in grand scale, from a winter wonderlandscape to a glorious feast, to gifts under the tree and the inevitable mistletoe. All of everyone's favorite things have made their way into the dreams. And it feels so vivid and real.

(ooc: This is a post to keep threads together for winter holiday antics. Separate posts are also fine, and this one is optional. Feel free to use the location subthreads as prompts, or to add something entirely different. These include hints of the dreams crossing into waking life; those are small and entirely optional as well.)

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[guardiano_perduto]

[Ratchet's caretakers were usually pretty adamant about taking care of their charges, but every so often, one would be able to wander off on their own personal field trips. Veldin had never seen snow to this extent - of course he would use the opportunity to explore!

So just as Sora's starting to build a snowman, there's a little pair of yellow ears peeking out of the snow, moving along a trail, then stopping just inches from the boy's feet. A head is next to pop out, securely wrapped in a thick winter hood and aqua eyes bright and curious at the other child's actions.]

[connectedsky]

[At first, Sora is too wrapped up in trying to make his lumpy makeshift pile of snow look like the pictures of snowmen he's seen in books to notice the yellow ears nearby. But the sense that he's being watched creeps up on him, until finally he looks around and spots...a face! That looks like it belongs to someone his age! Well, maybe.]

Huh?

[Sora gets down on his knees, trying to get a closer look at the face.]

Why're you in there? Isn't it cold?

[guardiano_perduto]

[Some of the cold, white fluff manages to get in his mouth, so the Lombax spits a little before trying to talk back. He's curious to know why there's so much cold, fluffy stuff around! What was it, and what was he doing with it?]

Really cold!

[Oh, so he could talk! It sounds like he's still learning, though. What an odd little cat-baby-thing.]

Ich fiel in ein Loch. So I just kinna tunneled around until I found some'ody.

[connectedsky]

What did you say? That first part sounded all funny.

[Guess who's never heard someone speak another language before?]

[guardiano_perduto]

I dunno! I just remember other people talking like that before.

...but how come you're all different?

[connectedsky]

All...different?

[For a long while, it doesn't even occur to Sora what he may be talking about - he had hardly even noticed the fact that they looked different. After a few minutes of thinking, though, he manages to put two and two together.]

Oh! Well, you're from a different world, aren't you?

[He says this as if it's the most obvious thing in the world ever.]

[guardiano_perduto]

Uhhhmm...

[He felt like he should have answered 'yes', but he'd pretty much lived on Veldin his whole life - he was going to be four next year! - so the concept of 'other worlds' hadn't even crossed his mind, at first. The Lombax kit shuffles his feet and bows his head, wrapping his arms around the small of his back as he mumbles back;]

--alwaysbeenhere. The Caretaker is really nice and lets me sleep with him at night when I get weird dreams.

Does that mean you're from somewhere else...?

[connectedsky]

[Normally, Sora wouldn't have been so quick to think of other worlds, either. But considering the strange visitors to the islands a few months ago, and more recently all the strange people he's been meeting in his dreams, assuming that odd things were from other worlds just made sense.]

That's right! I'm from Destiny Islands. My name is Sora.

Are you from this place?