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The Door opens on four sprites, one of them decidedly tiny and another canine in nature.

"Here you are, Ana," the green one tells the tiny one. "Welcome to... Cubefall! Oh, man! Alphanumeric!"

The befinned one looks around the bar with a smile, adjusting her hold on her daughter as the group make their way inside. "Talk about first impressions, eh, Sprout?"

The canine one makes a snorting noise and paces a vigilant perimeter around woman and child. (He may also have an eye out for construction toys operable by jaw.)

[Two muns, two pups, two subpups! We're flexible!]

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"That's true," he admits. "It's not exactly ice powers, it's cold powers. You said yours only works on water, right?"

"I manipulate and freeze the water molecules in the air."

"Right. They just drop the temperature."

"I can do that, too."

Smug Bobby is smug.

"It's just cooler to make it snow. What good is it to just drop the temperature?"

"It does the job," says Enzo, scowling. "'Specially together with all the rest of their powers."

"You're just mad because I'm way better at cold then them. I'm not knocking ghost powers, I'm just saying that I'm the best there is at ice and cold."

Enzo shrugs and lightens his scowl a little, which Bobby will have to accept as an admission of the probable truth of his statement.

"Now, if ghost powers had been one of my choices for Cubefall, I would have been tempted!"

He really would like to be able to fly and walk through walls and stuff.

That cheers Enzo back up.

"I picked that my first Cubefall. It was my first time being organic, too. They're definitely awesome, but kinda hard to control at first."

"What are you hoping for this year?"

"Dunno. Something I haven't tried before, I guess. And something that fits inside."

"Yeah, being able to come and go would be good. Maybe you could try being a little girl."

"He's certainly been dressed as one," AndrAIa mutters distractedly from her seat. "Maybe now you'll have the figure to pull it off, Sprout."

"AndrAIa..."

"I think there is a story here that I need to hear!"

He rubs his hands together.

"Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!"

Enzo groans, and decides to tell it himself, because not doing so will likely be worse.

"I rebooted as a damsel in a Game once. And then Bar dressed me up as it again for... I forget, Mardi Gras or something."

To his credit, Bobby tries to look sympathetic and hold his laugh in. For a whole three seconds.

"That sucks!"

It doesn't keep him from laughing, though.

"Yeah, yuk it up, Frosty."

And then, in the manner of picking at a scab: "I couldn't move. My skirt held me up off the ground."

"Did you at least get rescued by a handsome prince?"

Glare.

"Bob and Dot both rebooted as knights. They had to rescue me from being rescued by the User. But I won the Game."

So there. Even in the midst of indignity...

"Any landing you can walk away from, I guess."

He's managing to keep his laughter down to the occasional chuckle.

"Unless you're flying a jet. They get really upset if you clip the wing on the side of a cliff, even if the rest of the plane is fine."

Random, much?

Certainly random, but Enzo isn't complaining.

"What'd you do?" he demands. Turnabout is fair play.

"They park the thing in the side of a hollowed out cliff, behind a waterfall! You try pulling in smoothly with only a couple of feet of clearance on each side!"

At least it was during landing, and not take off!

Enzo opens his mouth to mock, then closes it again.

"... okay, yeah, point."

"I wish the professor was that understanding. I don't get to drive that often. I'm fine with a little single prop plane, but a jet isn't that easy."