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Trying to give her muse a chance to stir Prue is out back walking around. There is a pig that is putting it's head in the freezing cold water.

"Oh my." she goes over to try and take a look at what has the pig so facinated.

Snowball emerges, shaking the water from his ears and sneezes repeatedly.

Prue doesn't know that the pig can talk or that he is intelligent. She bends down and talks to the pig like one does a dog that has foind something but doesn't really expect an answer, "So what have you got your snout into?" no offense is meant. She just doesn't know any better yet.

"Water, and mud." Snowball replies. He sneezes again.

"I'm looking for a frog."

For a brief moment she looks suprised when he talks but then recovers quickly. After all it's what she does.

"Would you like some help?" It's been a while since she has been able to help people which may be why she is a little eager, "What do you need a frog for? if I may ask."

"Yes please. I'm trying to cure my roommate."

He submerges his head in the water again as long as he can hold his breath for.

"Your roomate is sick? Poor thing."

Prue watches for a bit before she closes her eyes and Astral projects herself under the water on the other side of the lake.

Snowball continues looking, dunking his head into the freezing water and feeling around in the mud with his snout. After about fifteen attempts he stops and begins to paw at his face with his trotters.

Only being able to hold the Astral self for so long at a time herself she comes back to her body.

"Are you okay?"

"I... I think my eyelids are frozen."

"Oh, maybe you should go inside and get warmed up. You wont be much use to your roommate if you get sick too." gently rubbing the pig to help warm him up.

"I'm not the one on death's door. Could you just help me unfreeze my eyelids please?"

She nods and starts working on warming up him eye lids. "Your roommate is on deaths door. Has he seen a vet?" yes she assumes that it's male and an animal. Just a reminder she is still new to this place.

"The doctors don't know how to cure her. That's why we need the frog."

He opens his right eye and blinks, trying to focus.

"If the doctors don't know how to help her what good will a frog do?" she asks curiously.

"She is stuck in a deep sleep. I'm getting the frog so someone can kiss it and make a prince to kiss her and make her better."

He opens the other eye. "Thank you."

He sticks his head back in the lake.

Sitting there she tries to work out this logic. It makes sense in a strange sort of way. Escpecially coming from a talking pig.

He comes up coughing and spluttering, spitting out mud.

First helping the pig with the mud then continuing asking her questions, "So how did end up in a deep sleep. Did hse prick her finger on a spindle or something?" remembering her fairy tales. Yes Prue is actually taking this seriously.

"No, she had a vulture."

He sneezes repeatedly.

"A vulture? HOw would a prince kissing your friend help with a vulture attack?"

"Because the vulture took her liverforce and made her sleepy."

Okay now something clicks. "Who is your roommate?"

"Comrade Amanda."

He dunks his head back in the water.

Prue tries to stop him but is too late. There really isn;t anything she can do put try to help. SO she closes her eyes and tries to astral project herself back into the lake.

He comes back up to the surface, shaking his ears and coughing.

Prue is sitting with her eyes closed and is very still. Her Astral self is still under the water.

He coughs violently, trying to get the water out of his throat. Choking, spluttering.

With a violent motion her Astral self comes back into her body.

"Are you alright?"

He doesn't answer. He's choking on the water, still coughing. Pigs aren't really designed for this sort of thing.

"You really should take a rest. Let me do this. If I find anything I'll let you know."

THINK! She doesn't get it. I have to unblock my airway somehow.

He staggers over to a nearby rock and throws himself on it, winding himself. A small piece of water weed flies out and he gasps for breath.

No she didn't get it. Prue grew up in the city and doesn't know what a choking pig looks like. She does now.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry." going over to the pig and placing a hand on him.

"Not... a problem... comrade." Snowball gasps.

"But you really should let me do this. It's too dangerous for you. Besides my sisters and I are already working on helping her."

"But your ears are too delicate for you to stick your head in the water. I have a thick layer of fat and am much more resiliant to the cold than you humans."

He goes back to the edge and begins to break the already reforming ice. As he cuts the last chunk with his teeth, he loses his footing and falls into the water with an enormous splash.

Prue does waist anytime. With a flick of her wrist the Pig goes flying out of the water and lands on the bank.

Pig, meet bank. Snowball gasps.

"Why am I so hopeless? I have to find a frog!"

He gets his breath back. "Thank you comrade."

"Your welcome. Amnd you aren't hopeless. YOu are doing everything you can to help your friend. As are my sisters and I. Now relax. I will help you find a frog. I can go under the water without getting wet."

She closes her eyes and her Astral self appears right bext to her.

The pig freezes in terror, backing away from the Astral self.

"Mother nature"

Astral!Prue speaks, "It;s alright. This is a projection of my conciousness. It's magic. I'm a good witch. It's my job to protect the innocent."

Her hands in front of her in a non agressive way.

Snowball still looks rather frightened.

Prue lets her astral self desolve and her eyes open, "It's alright. I wont hurt you. Please don't fall back into the lake."

"I have no intention of doing so comrade." Snowball replies weakly.

"What you have just done defies all physics that I have become acquainted with."

"Like I said it's magic. Magic has a tendency to do that." she refrains from telling him that she is dead considering that would be even more difficult to explain.

"I do not understand magic."

He shivers, very cold now.

"I need to get warm. Thank you for your help."