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Galen Erso is outside by the door, watching a young white-and-ginger cat stalk around in the snow as if he had never seen any.

Which is very likely the case.

There had been something rather fiery going on out there the other night, but Galen supposes it must have been something seasonal. Also, the snow has covered all the scorch marks; the landscape is white, pristine, and rather lovely,

Kyber the kitten licks his paw and looks bewildered before walking on.

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There is what looks like a large, curved horn of rough black rock lying some ways from the door. On it is what might, for a moment, look like a fluffy mound of snow.

Albeit a mound of snow with green eyes, watching Kyber's explorations with benign amusement.

Yrael hasn't quite decided what to do with his trophy yet.

Kyber comes closer as he notices his mighty friend and his big heavy prey.

"Hello, my young friend," Yrael greets him, twisting around and streeeeetching luxuriously. "Enjoying the snow?"

"It's cold! And white! And cold! And wet! And so cold! And fun!!" Kyber declares, hopping around in it like the excited kitten he is.

Yrael laughs. "It is all of those things!" With his tail, he sweeps a good shower of actual snow down from the surface of the great horn, down onto Kyber.

"It comes from up above!" Kyber declares, hopping around to catch it.

"You vanquished mighty prey!"

It's feline praise for a superior, of the highest order.

"I did," mwrrs Yrael, only a touch smugly. "I took it's eye, and one of its horns on which I might sharpen my claws, and it ran pleading back whither it had come."

"It was big!" Kyber says, admiring the horn. "A big monster! Bigger than a nexu!"

That's a monster he knows, from his humans' world.

"It had interrupted my hunt and scared away the demon rabbits. So of course I had to show it the error of its ways." Yrael gets to his paws and drops lightly down onto the snow beside Kyber, who gets his ears briefly groomed.

"What is a nexu, then? Should one come here, would we vanquish it together?"

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"It's huge and has a big mouth and teeth, lots of teeth, and spikes and is huge and both like a cat and a crocodile!" Kyber tells him, excitedly. "It's from the world my humans are from, and when one of them was in the place behind where it fizzles, they looked at a nexu together with their machine, but then it attacked and I made it go away!"

By knocking over the datapad from which the holo had been playing.

Bodhi isn't sure what to make of snow. He doesn't like being cold, particularly and it snags around his feet as he walks, cradling a couple of small potted plants in his arms as he comes back from the greenhouse.

He spots Galen and Kyber and gives them a wave, coming over to join them.

"Bodhi!" Galen declares, smiling with a sudden brightness the moment he spots his lover. His fiancé. His husband-to-be.

"Look at him discovering snow!"

So is Bodhi, which Galen finds secretly cute. He's read that the Rebellion had hidden on Hoth for a while, but that was after -- Scarif. So Bodhi had never had to deal with the stuff, most likely.

That smile! Bodhi will never got over that smile.

"Me and him both. But at least he's not having to worry about it getting in his boots." He leans in to kiss Galen's cheek.

"If you get it in your boots," Galen promises, "we will dry and warm both boots and feet in front of the fire. And a hot drink to warm you from the inside. Don't worry, just enjoy it."

"Kyber certainly is." There's a fantastic pattern of paw prints and tail swishes in the snow as the kitten bounces about.

"You can as well," Galen says.

Bodhi carefully puts his plants down, setting them aside safely. He reaches down to pet the frollicking kitten before gathering up a handful of snow. He moves it from hand to hand, cupping it into a ball. He hefts the ball thoughtfully before throwing it.

Kyber's head pops up and he chases over to where the ball landed.

Where he finds nothing but scattered snow, so he hops around, confusedly looking to for it.

Galen chuckles. "Like that, for example. Or you could make a snow bird."

"Snow bird?"

Kyber walks around in circles, looking for the thing he was hunting.

"Like this," Galen says, walking off towards the slope that leads to the lake, still holding Bodhi's hand and pulling him along.

"We need some nice, thick, fluffy snow we can just fall over in, just like a mattress."

He finds it, stands backwards to the soft slope, lets go of Bodhi and just drops lengthwise into the white fluff.

"Then we flap the arms about a lot to make wings, and the legs a little to make tail feathers," he explains, while doing so amid muffled snow-beating sounds.

Bodhi laughs at him, watching him flap about. "Really. Just like that."

He moves next to Galen, falling back into the snow. He barks a shocked sound as snow goes down the back of his collar.

Galen laughs out loud. "That's part of the fun!"

Bodhi flaps his arms and legs, making shapes. "I'm dragging you into a hot bath after this. Just do we're clear." Bodhi hates being cold.

"Oh yes please!" Galen says, kicking his legs in the air like a fighting cat, just because he can.

Speaking for fighting cats, Kyber comes racing over, pouncing happily on Bodhi's chest. The kitten might not be very heavy but the sudden weight makes him huff.

Galen looks at them, and laughs even more.

Kyber tries to tell them about the huge fiery monster Yrael vanquished, and the giant stone horn he brought home as prey, but the silly humans can't understand him. They are really dense sometimes.

Bodhi doesn't understand a word of it but he listens to Kyber's mews and meeps anyway, playing with the kitten's ears.

"He's so excited!" Galen laughs while Kyber dances around on Bodhi's chest, rubbing his head against the playful fingers.

"Our baby nexu." Bodhi grins, balling up a little more snow. Which he tosses to Galen's chest. Swiftly followed by Kyber.

There the snow is! Kyber hops around, batting about and off, driving the intruder from his human.

Who laughs with a deep rumble that does not, however, pitch the little cat off.

Bodhi laughs too, tossing another snowball at Galen to give Kyber something to chase.

It overshoots a little, and Kyber goes chasing after it, tears it up, then looks at them dismayed, his little white and orange face full of snow.

Bodhi laughs louder, leaning over Galen to brush snow off Kyber's whiskers. "Did it get away, little one?"

Kyber hops into Bodhi's arms, rubbing his snowy face on his human's shoulder.

Galen gets up, carefully and straight, and holds out a hand to Bodhi.

"Let's not miss up our snow birds."

Bodhi coos to Kyber and ruffles his fur. "Good job. Very brave."

He scoops Kyber up, letting Galen help him up and looks back. "Oh, I see! Snow birds. You're is better than mine though."

Galen just keeps holding his hand a moment longer. "More practice," he says. "Also, I wiggled less."

"But Kyber needed things to chase." Bodhi defends, making no effort to take his hand back, no matter how cold his fingers might be.

Kyber, on the other hand, has decided he's cold and makes an effort to get inside Bodhi's jacket for warmth.

Galen laces his fingers through Bodhi's.

Kyber's feet and paws are cold and wet on Bodhi's skin.

Bodhi tries not to squirm and fails. "You little frozen-" he yelps as a very cold nose is pressed against him too. "I think it might be time to go in and warm up."

Galen leans in and kisses him. "Yes!" he declares. "You taste cold."

"And you make me hungry to get warm." And naked.

Kyber wriggles inside his shirt, warm but bored now.

"That sounds very promising," Galen agrees with a smile.

Bodhi laughs as Kyber wiggles about. "I can promise a hot bath. As soon as I get Kyber out of my shirt."

"He wouldn't like a bath, neither hot nor cold, would you, Kyber?"

He reaches to ruffle Kyber's ears.

"We'll find a towel upstairs." Bodhi smiles and heads upstairs.

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