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Snow! ~~GIP!~~

. . .Dude, it's summer back in Nita's world. Snow is a good thing.

Nita's outside, idly making snowballs and ~~stock~~piling them up. Though she's got a good coat and mittens, she's hatless.

Approaching carries the risk of a snowball fight. You've been warned.

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He grins back. "I was just interested."

"Hey, it's cool. I don't get to talk about it at home much."

"Why's that?" he asks curiously.

"My world's sevarfrith -- people don't discuss magic openly there, because most people don't believe in it. People used to get killed for being suspected of being a wizard."

"...like Jeanne d'Arc?"

He used to hang around with students. Uneducated or not, he picked up some things."

She nods. "Like that, yeah."

"Oh."

"It's not like that all over, though. There are places in the Universe where you can talk about it -- like here."

Gavroche smiles. "And in the House of Arch."

"The house of which?"

"Where I live. It's Door's family house."

"Oh, okay. Where is it? I mean, on an Earth, or. . .?"

"It's in London Below."

She raises her eyebrows. "This is more than just the Underground, I'm assuming."

He nods. "It's a whole other city. You can't see it if you don't know it's there."

"Ah, gotcha. One of those kinds of places. What's it like?"

"It's really interesting. Loads to see."

"Like what? I mean, I know what there is to see in Paris, and I kinda know what there is to see in London, but. . ."

"It's not like London Above. It's like... stuff falls out of London Above and ends up there. And people."

"Hmm." She sips her hot chocolate. "Sounds like an interesting place. Big and noisy."

They sit until the hot chocolate is gone, and after, trading stories and laughing.

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