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Tonks, if you please (tonks_please) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-01-17 13:44:00

Entry tags:

astor bennett, complete, day 29, faith lehane, illyana rasputin, marcus cole, mercy thompson, nymphadora tonks, sam winchester, severus snape, violet baudelaire

WHO: Tonks and Illyana, Marcus, Astor, Faith, Mercy, Violet, Snape, Sam, Andy (posting order)
WHAT: Snowball fight!
WHEN: Day 29, afternoon
WHERE: The snow forts
RATING: PG at most, I should think
STATUS: Complete

After showing Mercy around, she'd had a little bit of a run in with someone over the journals. But Tonks was nothing if not resilent, and she didn't let him hurt her feelings for long. Instead, she decided that exactly what she needed was some physical exercise. So she changed into some warmer clothing, swapping her normal t-shirt for a thick sweater, and then, she was off.

There were people there already, so Tonks picked a fort nearly at random and crouched behind it. The witch then spent quite a few moments simply packing snow into snowballs, but now she was ready. She had quite a pile to work with. Showing that she wasn't always clumsy, she clambered to the top of her chosen fort and cupped her hands around her mouth so her voice would project further. Of course, she could use magic, but that seemed like cheating somehow.

"Hey, guys! Let's get this going on!" As usual, her voice was full of good cheer and high spirits. And she immediately had to duck down as people from both sides flung snowballs at her. She had been a bit of an idiot, making herself such an easy target and then taunting everyone. Her uncharacteristic nimbleness went away very quickly under the rain of snowballs, and she half-fell half-slid back to her pile of snowballs. It was turning into a pretty fun fight, she thought. She was having a good time.

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miami_angel97
2009-01-19 11:45 pm UTC (link)

Astor yelped in surprise when she was hit from behind with a snowball and laughed as a dark-haired girl - maybe not quite a grownup? - laughed and ran by, shouting at her to join in before taking off toward one of the forts. That was all that Astor needed to be set in motion. Dodging the numerous assaults of flying snowballs and brushing past a really tall guy who was also standing off to the side, Astor followed the other woman, squealing when a blonde woman hit her with a snowball, shouting that if she just stood there, she'd be pelted for sure.

Ducking behind the fort with the other woman, all smiles and excited to be included, Astor started packing snow together sloppily, not ever having made snowballs before. "I wasn't sure I'd be allowed since it looks like mostly grown ups playing," she said breathlessly to Faith. "I'm Astor. And you shouldn't hit people when they're not looking," she giggled, tossing one of the badly made snowballs at the other woman as if to prove her point.

She peeked up over the top of the fort and, remembering seeing another girl who might be close to her age ducking behind the other fort, she shouted out to her, "BOMBS AWAY!" and threw a large loosely-packed snowball over the other fort's wall, hoping to get her but ducking down before she could see if she had.

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