InsaneJournal

Tuesday; December 25 2007

Who: Katy and Jake
When: closer to mid afternoon, after being released from the medical pavilion.
Where: Around the town cottages
What: exploring the winter wonderland that is Elysium.

Katy walked out into the snow and shivered. When the nightmare of Christmas was finally over and they allowed her to leave the medical pavilion, she promptly went home and bundled up in her warmest coat. She was covered in a thick jacket, leather gloves, and a woolen hat, a different less flashy one since her meeting with Douglas, over her head pulled down over her ears to keep them warm. It had been snowing pretty much all week and had left Elysium looking like a winter wonderland. Katy remembered the first time she saw snow as a teenager in Colorado. She had been excited enough to run out into the fresh powder barefoot. That had been mistake she had not wanted to repeat, but turning into a werewolf on Christmas Eve and waking up in a snowdrift completely naked seemed to have similar notes as to her childhood activitiy, except she had no control over the event. She looke down at her shoes. She was currently wearing some thick soled boots that would protect her feet now at least.

Katy sneezed into her sleeve and rubbed her reddened nose. She hoped she wasn't coming down with a cold.

Snow flurries were still fluttering down from the roof of her cottage as Katy reached down and picked up ball of snow. She patted it compact in her hands and looked around. There weren’t many people outside in front of the cottages. There were abandoned snowmen and intentions in the snow that looked like someone was trying to make a snow angel. She suspected that many of the kids had a moved on to find a hill where they could sled down, or to play with whatever toys their parents had been able to fashion for them. She could still hear the squeals of excitement that were obviously coming from a distance away.

That sounded pretty fun actually.

Katy made her way through the trees watching her breath crystallize into visible moisture. It almost looked like she was smoking without an actual cigarette. She nearly stumbled over a snow drift because she was not paying attention when she came across the pond. Most of it looked frozen over. She looked around and wondered if anyone had tested this part of the pond yet. They had the man-made ice rink in town, but Katy didn't really want to fall on her butt with the whole population of Elysium watching. She picked up a heavy stick and started to poke at the iced over water before she decided to brave putting a foot on the frozen pond.