The second time was the charm as Boreal made no attempt to stop Sugar's ice-bombing runs and the little dragon managed to turn Tal's hat into a frozen sculpture, frosting his eyebrows in the process. The courier yelped indignantly and pulled the suddenly-cold knit toque off as Boreal's basso chortle revealed where her sympathies were at.
The sudden hat dance turned out to be an inadvertently timely dodge maneuver as Ronin's snowball went whizzing by beneath Tal's arm and he ducked down hurriedly as soon as he realized it. Blithely oblivious to the Huntsman's cunning plan he scooped up another two snowballs while he was down and popped back up almost immediately. This time he attempted to lob them in an arc to get them over the wall Ronin was behind so they'd land on his head or shoulders.
"One for every month y'were gone!" The courier's grin was downright wicked as he peeked out over his rampart. "There's three more still t'g--HEY!" Boreal's head made an appearance on the opposite side of his fort wall and she leaned over to lick his frosty eyebrows with her rough tongue, scaly tail thumping the ground enthusiastically.
The sudden hat dance turned out to be an inadvertently timely dodge maneuver as Ronin's snowball went whizzing by beneath Tal's arm and he ducked down hurriedly as soon as he realized it. Blithely oblivious to the Huntsman's cunning plan he scooped up another two snowballs while he was down and popped back up almost immediately. This time he attempted to lob them in an arc to get them over the wall Ronin was behind so they'd land on his head or shoulders.
"One for every month y'were gone!" The courier's grin was downright wicked as he peeked out over his rampart. "There's three more still t'g--HEY!" Boreal's head made an appearance on the opposite side of his fort wall and she leaned over to lick his frosty eyebrows with her rough tongue, scaly tail thumping the ground enthusiastically.
