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 Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:32 pm
Squatting down in the snow, Lin made up her own snowball as well so she could show Earendil.
"Then you roll it on the snowy ground like this," Lin showed him, "Snow like this is very sticky so it'll just keep picking up the snow and get bigger very quickly from there."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:41 pm
Earendil nodded and rolled his snowball on the ground towards Miyuki, and by the time it reached her it had grown quite large. He scooted closer and rolled it a bit more, and once it was a bit bigger than his head, he looked up at Lin.
"How's that?" he asked. "Or should it be bigger?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:53 pm
Lin looked over where Earendil, for someone as tall as Earendil she had to wonder. Perhaps enough where they could sit and hide.
"It should be bigger," she finally replied, "I would say, if you sit down it should block most of you, but then again you are quite tall..."
She would have no trouble making a snowball where she could sit and hide behind it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:54 pm
Earendil was startled. "A single snowball that would be big enough for me to hide behind? Are you serious?" He blinked at her. "That would weigh ... well, a lot! I wouldn't be able to roll it that big!"
It was already quite heavy, what with it being a bit warm and so full of water.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:59 pm
Lin giggled at that, "How about this, we'll put snowballs like these ones side by side and then put more snowballs on top of them? It would be just as easy to do so."
She knew that even with him sitting he would have to sit low to order to hide.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:01 pm
Earendil nodded and grinned. "That," he said, "would work much better."
He looked down at Miyuki. "Should we make her a fort as well so that she doesn't get caught in the cross fire?" he asked, glancing back at Lin. "It wouldn't do to hit her by accident."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:11 pm
Lin wondered if it would be possible to move Miyuki to behind the fort that they were making. Knowing Miyuki though that might not be possible.
"Probably, I don't think we can move her since she's trying to make a tower," Lin replied but couldn't help but giggle at watching Miyuki pile on more snow.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:13 pm
"Well, at least Amalirahc isn't here to accidentally fall on it and get himself picked on," Earendil smiled ruefully. "And who knows? Maybe we could even make walls all around her so that she can't wander off or anything. Not close around her, but like a large fenced-in yard."
Somehow the idea amused him. Something like the playpens he had seen used by some of the mothers of young children in Amon Darthir.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:37 pm
"You mean like a snow play pen?" Lin couldn't help but raise a brow and chuckle at the thought.
It was times like these she wished she had a camera... or that her cellphone had one. She heard they could, but that required a computer, she didn't know the first thing about computers. Who wanted to be typing a computer? You couldn't take your writing with you and it wasn't anywhere near as pretty to read.
Of course Lin had something most people her age didn't have. Good penmanship.
"Sounds cute."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:40 pm
"Keep her safe while we're goofing off," Earendil pointed out with a grin. "She can't wander, and we can't hit her with our snowballs. She'll still have all the snow she wants to play in, she can keep building her tower - it's a win-win situation. What's not to love about it?"
He stood up and picked up his snowball, then brought it closer to where Miyuki was playing. "There," he grinned. "Ball one, done."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:50 pm
Lin had to laugh at that, "Or it would be just fun to try and build a castle around her."
There was a thought and try to make windows, of course Lin didn't know the first thing about snow sculpting, she rolled her ball next to Earendil's.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:51 pm
Earendil laughed. "Well then, I say we try it. That does sound fun, I've never built a castle of my own before!"
He chuckled and started on another snowball. "The palace at home was just finished about ten years ago, shortly before we left for our trip. It was fun talking to some of the workers from time to time, though Father didn't approve of it."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:01 pm
Lin looked at Earendil but didn't bother to tell him that even though she was willing to vouch for his good heart, his father had a stick way up his a**. It was probably the first time she really thought that strongly about Ruel's negative points.
"I thought he was getting better."
Granted she thought, it was probably a bit too much to hope for. She couldn't help but wonder if Ruel knew. While Lin had always hoped Ruel would get better, she also knew when it came down to it, he would be unbearable knowing that his son fell in love with a non-elf.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:03 pm
"He is," Earendil nodded, rolling the snowball in the snow. "Slightly. But that means that in the past, he was worse. Which he was, very much so. And since half the workers were dwarfs ..."
He trailed off and shrugged, letting the implication hang.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:13 pm
That had to be difficult back when Ruel had been even more difficult and Lin knew deep down how difficult Earendil's father could be.
"Have you ever gotten in an argument with your father with your different view points?"
Lin couldn't help but ask, probably because Earendil already confessed he saw no problems with inter-racial marriages and also because she wondered if Ruel knew and he simply put up with her because he was a good guy.
Who knew? One had to hope.
That or hope he would never find out, because she just might punch him for being a p***k (which high chances of him being), and that would so not go over well.
Why was she even thinking of this? She hadn't even figured out her answer.
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