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This time of year, snow is common. What’s uncommon is the single, strange snowfall that glistened like tiny diamonds. Everything about the snow seemed normal—it’s cold, wet, and melts just like any other snow, it just also happens to look like tiny little gems are falling from the sky. Depending on who you’re with, it’s either incredibly strange, or incredibly romantic.
Shikora was waiting for the bus.
It was lunchtime, and frankly, she didn't feel like driving her car downtown and trying to find a place to park at the restaurant she wanted to visit for lunch. She also didn't want to deal with parallel parking at the moment, if she could find a spot. Yuck.
It turned out that making up her mind to take the bus might have been a good decision. There was some snow coming down from the sky, and she didn't exactly have a great car for snowy weather. She also wasn't in any sort of mood to be dealing with her car attempting to fishtail its way down the highway in busy rush hour traffic. She'd pass.
Frankly, she might pass tonight too. It was her own practice; it wasn't like anyone was going to tow her car if she just left it there overnight...
She crossed her arms and shifted to her other foot, waiting patiently for the bus to pull up. It was probably a bit delayed with the sudden snow.
Shikora hadn't really been taking a close look at the snow, mostly stuck in her own thoughts and justifications. It took a few moments of silence in her own brain for her to finally take a moment and absorb her surroundings. It was snowing, but there was something distinctly odd about the way it glistened as it came down from the sky. It reminded her of glitter... or perhaps like falling gems. Diamonds? Opals?
Her arms dropped from their crossed position, and she wandered outside of the hut she was standing at, curious.
What was this?
She reached out a hand to let a few flakes fall on her glove.
Some part of her expected them to remain solid, but it didn't surprise her when they quickly began to melt, typical of normal snow. After all, when she wasn't paying full attention to her surroundings, the snow had seemed like normal snow. It was packing like normal snow, sitting like normal snow, covering everything like normal snow, it was cold like normal snow, cold on her nose at least--
But it was diamonds.
Honestly, she felt like she was in a bad fragrance commercial. First she had sand, but when she came to Destiny City and held out her hand, she had diamonds. She wished her significant other smelled like diamonds.
She giggled to herself.
It was awfully strange, but Shikora had quickly adjusted to how strange this city was. The oddities of Destiny City no longer really surprised her. Everything was strange, here. That was part of why she had come here in the first place; her mission was to help the people in Destiny City that seemed surrounded by a high amount of danger and death. She hadn't really realized how strange it was in Destiny City until she finally arrived, but perhaps it made everything she had heard about Destiny City make sense.
This was strange, too, but it was pretty.
Shikora smiled up at the sky.
She would take the good strange.
It made this life worth it.
