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A Visit from the Magical Snow Fairy

This comm has been quiet for TOO LONG.

The ship is now full of snow. Seriously. It's in the hallways. It's in your bedroom. It's all over the mess hall, the sensoriums, and of course the city. How did it get here? WHO KNOWS! It's just everywhere snow should be and then a whole lot more.

NOW DEAL WITH IT!

(Meme is, as usual, open to literally anybody. Ever.)

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"There's already snow in there!" he calls, peeking around the doorframe. There's another snowball in his right hand.

"I don't care. No snowball fights in the tavern," Kang stood up, readjusting his cloak and giving Grif a look.

"Aww c'mon, it's not like I broke anything. Or got snow where there wasn't snow already."

He paused, considering. "Is it because I hit you? Because I totally hit you and you did not see it coming. I saw you jump."

"No, it's not because you hit me. I just don't want snow being flung around in here. Snow shouldn't be inside buildings anyways. That's why we have buildings."

Grif very gently sat the extra snowball on the floor, just inside the tavern.

"So," he went on, "Should I go find you a shovel?"

Why was Grif being so... nice? Kang brushed some snow off of the stage, "A shovel would be useful, yes."

"Alright, on it." He gave a very lazy mock-salute and jogged off through the snow. It took him a while to find a suitable shovel, but he did return. He was panting somewhat.

"One shovel!"

Kang gave Grif an odd look, a bit confused at the human's behavior, and took the shovel. "Thank you."

Grif pulled up a chair and brushed snow off of it, settling in.

Apparently he was going to watch.

...there was a bit of the Grif that Kang was used to. He hadn't planned on making the human do it anyways, so he chose not to comment on that and got to work. "You usually don't ever come here."

"Usually I'm not checking for snow and planning on throwing some of it at you," he pointed out. It wasn't necessarily antagonistic, he was just... talking. Casually.

"So you were tracking me down specifically?" Kang asked, curious. It was rare that he and Grif got along.

He shrugged. "Well, yeah. How else was I gonna throw snow at you? Did you think I'd waste this opportunity?"

Kang snorted, finishing up with the stage. "Anyone else on your list to throw snowballs at?"

"Probably Samus, but I'm actually a little bit worried she'd strangle me," he replied, stretching his legs out.

"Nice place you got here," he noted."

"Maybe not strangle you, but it wouldn't be pleasant either way," Kang grinned. Samus had even less patience than him with Grif.

"It's nicer when it's not freezing and covered in snow." He took special care with removing the snow around the mural, not wanting to mess it up in any way.

"She is kind of a huge bitch that way, yeah." Because it was totally not Grif's fault for being a jackass to her, totally. He knew that wasn't true, but he had an adversary to maintain and the exact reasons were less important than the sniping.

Grif hadn't noticed the mural until then. He'd been in here only a few times, and usually not for very long. He'd never had the time to examine it.

"What's the picture of?"

"It's partly justified, you know," Kang pointed out, tone kept casual.

He muttered a curse at the amount of snow that had built up, and kicked at a pile with a foot. "An old battle. The Dark Knights didn't like the idea of not being able to control us anymore, and tried to wipe us all out."

Grif tilted his head back, taking in the whole of the thing.

"Dark Knights? Is that a serious name?"

Kang nodded, "Yes, it is, or Knights of Takhisis. They patterned themselves after the Solamnic knights, but instead follow an evil god." From his voice, it was obvious he wasn't too fond of them. "They paid the goblins and hobgoblins there to kill us."

"Okay, the name was bad enough," Grif said, "But goblins and hobgoblins? Really?"

He exhaled heavily, as if this were a grave and serious matter. "I'm sorry Kang, but I cannot take your bad guys seriously. They sound like they were off some saturday morning cartoon. I mean, no offense."

Kang laughed, and turned to give Grif a serious look, "I used to be one of those bad guys. Until the dragonarmies screwed us all over by treating us like shit, and we lost the war because of their incompetence and greed.

"I know it all sounds a lot like some silly fantasy novel from your world, but on mine, it's reality."

"Well, armies screwing people over is apparently universal then."

His voice rose a bit. He loved complaining about this nonsense.

"I got drafted into the Red Army because apparently they were one guy short. And they stationed me out in a box canyon in the middle of nowhere to fight a bunch of blue guys. No aliens, no glory, just a bunch of cockbites and a stupid flag we were supposed to steal from 'em."

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"...that was it? For a game of capture the flag? There has to be more to this."

"Yeah, I know right? Then there was the guy yelling about how Red and Blue are the same, but I honestly think he had sunstroke. That kind of happened a lot."

He scuffed at the snow by his chair with one boot. "I kind of gave up on Command making sense a long time ago. I was just gonna live through all that bullshit and go home. You know, ride it out."

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