knightofratatosk | [Written; filtered to friends // 30% unhackable]

Okay!

[And a few minutes later, along comes Emil to the fountain, Sial in tow. This is the first time in almost two months that he looks nearly hopeful for a change.]

[That's going to make Ted feel bad when he realizes it's a fake. 8D;;; Ted will appear about a few seconds later, one hand up in greeting.]

Hey there!

Hey Ted. I'm sorry I haven't seen you at school lately, but...

[... but I haven't felt like going since it was Richter's idea for me to attend school in the first place.]

Don't worry about it. You had a lot going on, right?

Right.

[He's hoping that Ted won't press the matter; talking about his feelings is one thing Emil isn't very good at.]

Come on. Let's see if the lake's frozen over yet. [Of course he won't. He knows better than to make things awkward now.]

Frozen? But... why?

[He's not quite putting two and two together yet.]

Skating, of course! Haven't you tried it before?

No, the water level in Lake Sinoa was too low to do anything like that when I was there.

Well, if there's enough ice at the lake, we could try it I guess.

It's not dangerous... is it?

Not really, no. Unless the ice is thin, of course.

How can you tell if it is or not?

Uh... [... He wasn't really sure. He has never gona ice-skating, and the only things he knows about it comes from the library.]

[Sorry Ted. He thought you had.]

You know what? Let's try something else instead.

O-okay. Um... we could build a snow fort?

That sounds good to me!

Then let's try that instead.

Fine by me. Come on, then!

Okay!

[Off we go to look for a place with enough snow for a fort then!]

[Ted can lead the way; Emil will be trying to pull Sial out of the snowdrifts he keeps pouncing on. Weird chimera.]

[He chuckles at the sight, and once he spots and good enough area, he turns to Emil.]

All right, let's start here.

We should make it big enough so that both of us can hide behind it. Um, not that we'd actually be hiding from anything.

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