Nineteenth Snowflake

[sugarwaffo]

Hey, what's your favorite kind of snow?

[Sugar is taking a break from her snow making practice. It's been a year since she's arrived, and it doesn't feel like she's any closer to becoming a full fledged season fairy (though her magic flower has grown rather tall, strangely, despite her not finding any twinkles). So she's gone outside to practice.]

Also... um, say a plant starts growing without the things it needs. What would cause that?

[And with that, she starts playing her flute once more, waiting to see if anyone will reply.]

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[schrodingersghost]

[Danny laughs and floats down to join her. He'd been out here himself practice his ice powers.]

I didn't know there was anyone else here with ice powers!

[sugarwaffo]

[Another person! Sugar stops playing, the snowflake she was building falling slowly to the ground.]

Oh! Hello!

I don't! Just snow fairy magic.

[schrodingersghost]

Snow fairy magic? What's that?

[dictated]

[delincuente]

Didn't know there was more than one kind. Just the real white stuff, and then the gross mud-slushie we get in New York.

[sugarwaffo]

It's what snow fairies use to change the weather, of course!

[schrodingersghost]

...You're saying you're a snow fairy?

[sugarwaffo]

Of course I'm a snow fairy! What did you think I was?

[Making snow + tiny flying girl with wings = ?? She doesn't see what's so hard about this.]

[schrodingersghost]

Some kind of ghost, I guess. Though you don't look much like of the ghosts from the Far Frozen.

[sugarwaffo]

A ghost? You mean like the ones in the castle? I don't look like those!

[dictated]

[sugarwaffo]

Oh, there are so many kinds! There's light powdery snow which blows everywhere and fluffy snow that gathers into feathery clumps as it falls. Some snow is drier than other snow. Even the temperature changes the way the snow feels!

[Someone should probably stop her, or she'll talk snow for ages.]

[delincuente]

... Yeah, thanks for the science lesson. It's still all the same stuff, though. What kind of place do you live where you actually get the fluffy storybook snow?

[schrodingersghost]

Nah, the ghosts in the castle don't look like the ones I know either. Back home there's this place called the Far Frozen where a whole bunch of ice-using ghosts live.

[sugarwaffo]

That depends on where the snow fairies are. Normally we move around a lot, you know.

[sugarwaffo]

Really? Are you sure they're not really ice fairies?

[After all, season fairies were not usually visible to humans, so it was possible to mix them up.]

[schrodingersghost]

They're yeti, actually.

[sugarwaffo]

What's a yeti?

[delincuente]

Ah. One of those kinds of worlds. I should have guessed.

[schrodingersghost]

Um, abominable snowman?

[sugarwaffo]

Eh? [She tilts her head.] What makes them abominable?

[sugarwaffo]

[Sugar giggles.]

Not just any world, silly! The human world!

[delincuente]

... Wait - so you live in the human world? You don't have, like, your own little magic domain or anything? Even where I'm from, the fairies pretty much steer clear of the mortals.

[schrodingersghost]

...I have no idea.

[sugarwaffo]

Well, what makes them different from normal snowmen?

[schrodingersghost]

They're ghosts? And not actually made out of snow. Actually they kind of look like big white bears with really shaggy hair.

[sugarwaffo]

Really? Why are they called snowmen then?