sleigh bells ring

[OPEN] sleigh bells ring

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#10

07-24-2015, 06:11 PM

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“Boots!”

Something stirs through the snowy valley with that name, exclaimed by the mare of the ocean. Rustling and silent beneath the surface of Frostfall’s cold blanket, a miraculous and indescribable thing happens, unexplainable and surely conjured by the wisps and wonders of the mind. He moves. Called to by his name, called to action, called to respond by his masters, his creators, and he comes to them happily.

First it is little, small, strange—a tail of snow, pressed against the frozen ground, moves. Without rising, it begins to wag from side to side, slowly and lethargically at first, but quickly picking up speed at it pushes its sister flakes around. Then it is his legs, plump and misshapen, that creak and groan as they are pried away, cracking and rising. The snow puppy heaves to separate its body until only the bottom of his head is still connected to the snow surrounding him, looking up at his creators, his masters, with mismatching eyes of stone.

His frozen mouth parts—slowly, like a yawn, prying its jaws apart and releasing a white tongue of powder and ice. With tail wiggling in a delight that only a creation can feel for its makers, the puppy releases a bark of wind and cold, releasing his head from the snow and toppling him backwards in a most ungraceful fashion.

For a moment it might be feared that Boots has gone, returning to the flakes of his sisters, but before fright rises the puppy suddenly pops up through the snowy dust to stand before his masters. Tongue lolling and tail wagging happily, he glances up at them with his own crooked and adoring expression. His lips wide in a smile, Boots barks again, the sound breathy and cold.

Pouncing with his weight on his forelegs, the snow puppy darts around his creators, rolling in between their legs and then dashing off again—barking at them over his shoulder.

@[Mortuus Nox]

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