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Snowball's tail flickered as he set foot onto the cold stone floor of Polaris. . . he had come alone again. Hand placed on the locket around his neck. His purple eyes bright in the night light of the castle, he was looking for something. Though he wasn't sure what, "I need you're help, ya'know?" He said speaking though no one existed on the home world besides him at this point.

"She can't bring everyone with her at once, and well, there'd be so many other people that might be interested in this. We've only got a few weeks before the wedding." His feet softly hit the cobblestone corridors of the ice castle. "I need a solution and I'm not sure where to look for one . . . or what to look for. It's been a long, hard and cold road."

He pulled his coat closer to him as he walked and gave a small twirl as he looked around the hallways, he wasn't sure where he was headed but surely he had to be in the right direction right? His ears flicked as if he heard wind blowing somewhere. He'd patched the windows in her room and doors the best he could. He followed the whistling sound to see where it'd lead. "If you really approve of this you'd give me some sign. Even a little one. Something to help me get everyone here. I know back then it was taboo for a Princess to marry a Knight of another's home world . . . but look how they continue to meet, their fate, it seems intertwined. I cannot give them another Romeo and Juliet ending."

There was a pause as the wind died down and Snowball's tail flicked standing near another fork in the castle's maze-like paths. "Oh, I don't know why I'm talking to you, I don't even know if you understand me." He muttered surely magic could understand the wishes and needs of others, why else would things happen unexpectedly?

His fur fluffed a little as he continued to walk in the direction he thought the wind had been blowing in from. He could patch all of this, though he'd have to make a map eventually. "I should've brought map making supplies for this castle. I swear it seems bigger each time I walk in it."

He hummed softly as another gust of wind picked up and drew his attention to what appeared to be some sort of library, though not quite grand enough and it housed other instruments. "Hm . . . this room is interesting." He noticed the windows had been blown open, mostly intact, causing a flurry of papers every time the wind gusted. "Okay, okay let's get you closed." He moved to shut the window when a piece of paper flew into his face. "Hey!"

He pulled it away looking at it and his head tilted, "Curiouser and Curiouser. . ." He mused looking at the piece as he closed the window. Squinting at the paper and the foreign writings upon it. "I can at least make sense of the drawings, so glad there's pictures." He mumbled as he picked up pieces of paper and stacked them neatly, trying to figure out what might be first page, second, and so on. "This looks like instructions. . . "

His ears twitched again as he bound the softly with some ribbon that was laying loose, thankfully having noticed the holes in the paper where they had once been bound by something else. "While I can't make it out, it looks like some sort of teleportation device. . . maybe " The cat paused and thought, well it'd make some sense because Star Trek had Scotty beaming them up constantly, it could work right? For large groups and less. . . "If I build it they will come right?" He nodded softly as he gathered the bound papers and some other materials and headed back out into the snow. He wasn't going to count his rabbits before he caught them but surely the papers would help him with ideas. "I'll have you back here in no time. I just need the diagrams anyways."

How hard could this be right? Surely he wouldn't be working on it straight up until the night of the wedding, and he could gather the supplies here for the first one. . . though he wasn't sure how he'd test it. . . without an obvious second one. . . . "Hm . . . this is going to be interesting. I need a way to test this . . . "

It took a few visits when he could manage to construct anything similar to what the diagrams showed and he was standing there looking at the last of the work he had to do and tweaking it. "I hope this works." He took a bar of chocolate and sat it on the pad without any luck, the bar didn't move. Snowball frowned heavily and moved to poke at the chocolate and jump pad. . . .

"Well . . . it looks like it's suppose to . . . why won't it work?" He started pulling on wires and tugging on this and that, turning a cog before the mechanics of the machine backfired on him and he had soot on his face from the magnetic rock he used to try and power it. " . . . Why you, I swear that's fighting gestures!"

Snowball's tail twitched irritated, surely he'd missed something but what!? He pulled out the book and sat on the jump pad as he looked at the papers trying to decipher them. However, he wasn't sure he could fix it . . . when he noticed one of the pages actually looked like it was missing. . .

" I gotta find that page!" He scurried to see if he could find it he didn't have time to lose. . . surely that would have the answer! "I got to have this done in time . . . ! Oh I'm late for a very important date if I can't!"

Finally though Snowball managed to locate the piece of paper under one of the pieces of equipment he managed to squeeze under as a cat and pull it out. Thankfully his size wasn't so large he couldn't fit in the gaps. Unless they made the room that way so he could move around when he was a cat in the castle.

His tail flickered as he unbound the book and placed the new page in and started looking at it again . . . "It seems to need some sort of rock . . . I wonder . . . where I can find that at." Snowball looked at the paper turning it back and forth a few times before leaving the book upon the table and heading back out in the cold towards the pad he'd made. He wasn't even sure if it'd work. There were a few times it seemed to malfunction and just spit at him, "Maybe it's because I didn't give it anything to power it. . . but I thought for sure using magnetic rocks would've been enough."

His hands were running over the contraption, scrutinizing his own work finding that there was a missing gap that he'd left as per the pictures. "Well, if it doesn't work I've got an impressive piece of yard art." He mused to himself as he walked around looking at rocks deciding maybe he should try those. Surely something here was powered right? Some of them sat there, others floated. One of them made the pad jump but that was about it. The chocolate sat there without moving. Snowball sighed as he sat down.

"I can't believe I'm getting beat by a hunk of metal that shouldn't be that hard to make function it looked sooo simple in the pictures!" He muttered as he kicked his feet, he was sure Polaris would love to use this for practicing her attacks, it could be thrown around a little and had some weight.

"It'd make a nice weapon at least." He said to himself before he stood up again and started walking around the snow laden scenery. He couldn't think of anything that might power the jump pad, after all he couldn't tell if it was a certain type of rock or just something he was missing all together. The more he walked the more he realized there were some other debris scattered throughout the snow, and he started digging them up finding different sorts of rock.

"Surely, one of these will work." He had gathered an arm full as he headed back to the jump pad shoving each one into the spot for the missing thing. Some had it making noises others had a weird glow or feel, Snowball just couldn't find the right one . . . "What am I going to dooooo, the weddings in two weeks!?"