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The sun silently beats down on the grounds, waves of heat radiating off of everything. But then, a soft rumble begins. It grows louder and louder, starting in the mountains and crashing down down down until a great roaring avalanche of snow arrives...

The calm returns but the blistering heat is gone. "How's that, Autor?" Mia asks.

The boy smiles shyly at her, his warm, knitted scarf demonstrating a clear gradient of skill from raw novice to advanced beginner. "It's lovely," he says, squeezing her fingers in his gloved ones. "Thank you, Mia." Releasing them, he turns and places a hand on his hip to watch the next step.

At the mouth of the inlet a narrow cliff juts out into the water, covered by a thin layer of soil to which a mat of short grass is clinging, littered with demon bunny droppings. On this ledge, Korra stands, her feet planted firmly against the ground. Starting with that wide stance, Korra moves a foot and then pushes her arms in front and up, causing the lake bed to shift, and the waters to part as a narrow ledge of earth divides a smaller pond away from the larger lake.

Turning into the inlet, she leaps onto the surface and slides out into the center on a shelf of ice that stretches out in larger and larger crystals as it thickens beneath her. In the center of what will be the ice rink, Korra stops, and takes one calm, centering breath.

And then with her eyes closed she moves again, this time much more fluid in her motions, turning a slow circle on the ice with her arms in front of her, swaying as her weight shifts from foot to foot. A bubble of water rises in front of her, and as she pushes out, the bubble expands, passing through Korra so she's standing in the center of an ever expanding air filled bubble of water, stretching further and further out so by the time it hits the shore any onlookers will feel the cool sensation of water vapor from a fountain. She shifts her movement again, and the snowflake patterns of ice crystals appear at the top and the spread around the bubble, crystallizing and solidifying in a lattice of clear ice.

Then Korra opens her eyes, and finishes the rink as she slides back to the shore. There, a further turn and a sweeping gesture towards one side shatters a large hole in the side, perfect for a double door.

"Neat trick, Avatar," Autor says, accompanied by a saucy grin and an informal salute. With a few simple words, Mia sets a flurry fluttering down in the dome.

Once the rink is complete, the boy heads off to help an industrious ten-year-old set up the food and drinks table. There are some things too heavy for Rae to lift.

[Credit to the respective muns for their pups' part in the EP! Standard party post rules apply, all tags welcome.]

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"I'm Ginny, the witch, It's okay I got stuck in my world for awhile too. Quidditch."

She smiles.

"As long as I don't land on my bum I'm okay."

"Yes, I remember now. How are you doing?

"And no, I have never heard of Quidditch. But I could explain hockey." All he needs is a puck.

Ginny if she knew what a puck was could fix that.

"I'm doing well how are you. Okay how do you play hockey?"

"I am fine. Just two years later than the last time you saw me. War's over, and life is good." Which makes him smile.

"Can you skate along while I get a puck?"

"Yeah I can skate, sure and that's good War over is always good."

She smiles at him.

"It's been an adjustment, being back home. And also finding a door here again." From his master bedroom instead of from his cramped quarters in England.

"OK, see that piece of rubber on the ice. That's a puck. And the objective of hockey is to put that puck into that net." The net set up about fifteen feet away.

She nods slowly with understanding as she nods.

"I know how that is I had to find my own door again that wasn't in school. Okay do you swat it with the stick?"

"Pretty much." And he demonstrates, while trying to keep his balance. "But there is a lot more to it. Like skating at the same time. And keeping control of the puck. And keeping the other team from taking it away."

"So it's a team sport played with more then two people then maybe you should just skate around a little get used to skates?"

She doesn't want him to fall off his skates... "I know that these are different then mine at home"

"Not a bad idea. These aren't what I'm used to, either. Plastic, I think, instead of leather. Probably longer lasting, if less comfortable.

"But I don't know if I will actually play. I'm dressed all wrong." Coaches wear suits. Players don't.

Ginny looks at him as she nods; That's true, and it would be a shame to mess up your suit."

She then thinks "yeah, ours are blades you strap to your shoes."

"I had the great fortune to never need to wear those." Mainly because of his father's great fortune. "They don't offer much in the way of stability."

"These are much easier to wear for me. I am thinking of getting a pair from Bar to take home."

"I wouldn't have any use for them. They don't have ice rinks in Southern California. Or at least frozen lakes." Are they starting to build a few indoor rinks? He isn't sure.

"Oh does it not get cold there? Like at all even in the winter?"

"Maybe a few days in the 40s or 50s. But never cold. And often really hot." Too hot for comfort without air conditioning units.

"It only gets hot in my area in the Summer. Do you get to swim at least?"

"If I have the time. A lot of people have pools. I'm building one in my new house, in fact. And there is the beach." Though the Pacific is cold. Even in summer.

"A pool in your house?"

The idea of this fascinates her.

"A pool behind my house." Though he could have remodeled and fit one in the house, couldn't he? "I own a lot of property."

"Well that's cool I was just thinking if it was in your house you wouldn't sunburn."

This ginger burns easy.

"That is true. But I can also afford suntan lotion." As ineffective as it might be.

"It only works for a little while then you toast."

"True. But I don't mind a tan." Or know about the risks of skin cancer.

"But I was going to tell you about hockey? Should I demonstrate?"

"Yeah, I think that is good and yes I'm ready for hockey lesson."

She's ready to pay attention.

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