Let it snow [CLOSED]

[hearmyfeels]

WHO: Meulin, Rhia
WHAT: Meulin meeting her roommate
WHERE: Meulin's room
WHEN: Backdated to Early January
WARNING(S): None so far

Well the first thing Meulin noticed that morning was that she was cold. Incredibly cold, like the world outside was suddenly inside and--was that snow on her blanket? She sat up and blinked at the snow very clearly swirled in patterns on her floor and the open window. Refusing to get out of bed to close said window quite yet, she shimmied down to the footboard and reached as far as she could for a thick sweater and some slipper. The slippers were layered with socks and she finally put her feet on the ice cold floor.

"Freezing--shish kabobs--come on." She muttered, skidding to a stop before the window. Huh. Was that branch in her window before? She gently bent it back to close the window and turned to survey the snow on her poor floor. She'd need to get a broom.

It doesn't really occur to her that someone opening the window might be a problem or that someone who used it to get out might be a bit trapped when they try to get back in. What DOES occur to her is she might have a roommate who has decidedly different opinions about windows and winter.

Comments

[hearmyfeels]

"Oh! I've never met anyone from the Savage Lands."

Meulin pats her bandaged hand and looks down at the glass. She needs a broom and a dustpan and maybe a sheet. She's shivering again already.

"Why do--oh the cold? Well, if you're too cold you could freeze and die...Don't you feel the cold?"

[rhiaofdruma]

"Yes, I feel the cold, I feel the wind, but if cannot handle it, why not hibernate?" she asked, tilting her head. "Some trees sleep, some animals sleep, and they wake when warm."

[hearmyfeels]

Meulin pauses. Was that word really hibernate or did she misread. No--context says it is. Huh? Her mind skips the obvious 'humans don't hibernate' and focuses a bit more on Rhia's as yet unknown powers. Besides tree things.

"Oh, do you hibernate?"

[rhiaofdruma]

"No, but I like cold. Is as much as hot."

[hearmyfeels]

She wrinkles her nose, trying to think of how to explain it. Maybe it'd be better to put it in plant terms? It doesn't seem like her roommate has much experience with humans.

"Well you know how some plants will die from cold and wither from heat? Humans are like that! We need a pretty specific range of temperatures to be happy. We'll have to fix the window or I'll probably get sick."

[rhiaofdruma]

She hesitated. She didn't want to hurt her roommate who was apparently like a fragile spring bloom, but... she finally nodded. "Alright. I will sleep outside," she said with a nod. That made the most sense.

[hearmyfeels]

"Outside?"

That makes Meulin hesitate, worried for her roommate's health. But if she survived it last night, wouldn't she be okay with it later. She forces the worry away before they have a sudden cat addition she'd be obliged to explain.

"If you want to. You could sleep in here too!"

[rhiaofdruma]

"You no like cold, not sure how to get tree in without cold in," she said simply. Is like a Fish and Bird trying to nest together. Will be okay," she said with a smile.

[hearmyfeels]

"Well okay..." She shrugs, stepping back to survey the damage, "You should just try to get my attention in the future."

[rhiaofdruma]

"How?" she asked confused, then tilting her head. "Why?"

[hearmyfeels]

"Well so if you want to come inside, I can open the window for you. We can't really just keep replacing it. I think they might get mad."

As for how, well, her mind stumbles to a halt. The gears are turning but nothing is coming up. Knocking won't help, maybe a flashlight? They had light smoke alarms at home. She ponders it to herself and appears to have forgotten she was supposed to reply to that part. Or look up for Rhia's reply.

[rhiaofdruma]

Rhia seemed to consider as well, tilting her head. "I do not know much of how windows work," she finally admitted, since she had no idea what they could do.

[hearmyfeels]

"Ah...well they..." How do you explain windows.

"They open from the inside but I think you could open them from the outside. They slide open and you can let the breeze in when it's nice outside? And they're made of glass."

She gestures, making a square and then gestures toward the floor where it's all still scattered.

[rhiaofdruma]

"But if we open them, you freeze," she said in a soft plaintive voice, the kind only little kids could get, the kind that implied "And then you'll die and I'll be sad" without actually saying it.