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Jack Frost ([personal profile] wintershepherd) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-03-07 08:05 pm

[OPEN EVENT] Weekend Winter Wonderland

Characters: All?
Date: March 8th-11th
Location: All of Keeliai
Situation: It's been a stressful month thus far for a lot of people, but Jack is determined to Make All The Happy and decides he needs to get back to his wintery roots by giving the city a proper snowing.
Warnings/Rating: People high on snow glitter?
NOTES: Actionspam OR prose, whatever is preferred! (Settings were just easier to prose.) Make your own thread headers if none of these suit! ♥



Jack had spent the last three hours balanced motionlessly on the top of a flagpole, head tilted back as he listened to the wind and the sound of the city below. Where is Winter? it asked. I'm here! the spirit replied, but he knew it didn't mean his physical presence. He'd had too much on his mind and too much in his heart and in that sense he had indeed been absent these last few weeks.

Eyes closed and thoughtlessly trusting, he tipped forward into open air, letting the wind catch him and hurl him upward into the misty cloud cover that scudded across the stars tonight. At his touch they thickened, fat and pale grey against the indigo backdrop and Jack swirled them up, the motions so ingrained in him they felt just like breathing. In the small hours of the morning snowflakes began to fall on the sleeping city, specks at first but then quickly becoming heavier.

Now with a fresh canvas to work with, Jack was really in his element. He could never have done something like this back home, not anywhere in his world. It would have been too strange, too inexplicable, drawn too much attention. But here on the turtle, things were different. There wasn't really a semblance of normal and Jack poured his imagination and heart into the things he wanted most to share, and from the snow rose gleaming swirls of snow and blue light, forming things of exceptional detail and delight.

By the time the sun rose, a solid three feet of the snow had blanketed the city, glistening and crisp and Jack went rocketing down the streets, rapping on doors and windows to leave spirals of frost on every surface.

"Whooohoo! Snow day! Get up sleepyheads, everyone come out and play!"


THREAD STARTERS
Ice Skating | Snowball Battle | Sledding Hill | Ice Cityscapes | Kids Playground | OOC Plot Post
dracobin: (neutral)

[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-11 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That is curious; otherwise it does seem as if your world and mine have a great deal in common, appalling lack of dragons aside. Do you have Prussia, then, and Spain, and China?
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[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-12 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, all of those. Are you familiar with Canada and the United States of America?
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[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-12 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, and I should very much like to visit sometime. I have heard there are a great many dragons there, enough that any man might apply to captain one.

[Pause.] What of Africa? Who is in control of the continent?
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[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-12 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't the faintest idea. The last I heard, it was still divided up into colonies. France has a few.
dracobin: (neutral)

[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-13 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
That is another difference, then, I think; the Tswana Empire has driven the British and French out of Africa, and I do not think they will return anytime soon. [Temeraire rumbles thoughtfully.] Not that I was very sorry to see them go, if it will put an end to the slave trade.
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[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-13 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Jehan makes a face at 'slave trade']

That is something I support wholeheartedly, the end of the slave trade. I am sad to hear it is a problem in your world as well.
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[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-13 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It is, and it is very frustrating to be able to do nothing about it, when it is perfectly legal. But I am very glad to hear you agree.

[The more he hears about the Amis' opinions, the more he finds he likes them. It's good to feel validated for once.]
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[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-13 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Slavery's a tricky topic among Les Amis, honestly, but they tend to respect each other's opinions on it. Still, Jehan wants to change the topic]

Mm. You mentioned a Lien, earlier--that is not a French name. Is she from the Orient?
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[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-14 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[From one tricky topic to another, albeit for entirely different reasons. Temeraire grumbles, twitching his wings a little in annoyance. Still, it is hardly Jehan's fault for asking.]

Yes, she is from China--like myself, I suppose, although I was hatched in British waters. Her companion was the brother of the Emperor, and we are cousins, but that means very little to me at present.
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[personal profile] poeticverses 2013-03-14 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...Ah. I am sorry for asking. I did not mean to pry like that.
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[personal profile] dracobin 2013-03-16 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I can hardly blame you for asking; you did not know. Only it is very inconvenient to be here, when she and Napoleon are staring at us from across the Channel.