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"Have you ever been out to this part of Halo?" Isla asks Varus as they crunch their way out across to the Sea of Glass. She certainly hasn't, and her cheeks might not be rosied with the cold, and she might not be shivering, but she's definitely excitable as they walk. She's bundled up in the furs and layers customary to Halo, but that's more to fit in than anything else.

"The Voice said I need to get some water from the Sea of Glass," she explains. "I can just get some ice from there and let it melt, though. It doesn't have to be actual water." She pats her coat, where a small jar has been stored within to put the glass into.
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
It’s been over three hundred years I think.” He comments with a huff of a laugh, not at all dressed for the part and quite clearly sticking out like a sore thumb should they go to the Citadel after. He hopes they do, at the very least. They need to retrieve a book on Halo’s customs, after all, in order to compare and contrast from the one they’d found in Torchline.

For now, though, he walks beside her in a simple sweater, metal arm gleaming from the snow’s reflection from sleeves that have been pushed up. “I imagine it would be difficult to attain water from such an icy place…” He trails off, boot nosing mound of snow into a sphere, before he picks it up in his metal hand and molds it into a ball. “So we can just waltz up and take a chunk of ice?” An amused grin spreads across his face as he looks ahead at a particularly large rock and throws the snowball at it and it lands dead in the center, exploding into powder. If there’s a quietly uttered bingo that Isla hears, so be it.
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"You know, I thought you would say something like that," Isla says with a smirk, glancing across at him as they crunch their way towards the icy lake. She can't help but watch him, in nothing but a sweater to defend against the cold, metal catching the moonlight. She knows there's an assassin buried under his grins and his jokes, and yet to see him gleefully toss a snowball at a rock, she just can't see it.

"Mmhm, that's the plan," Isla says, surreptitiously leaning down to roll some snow into a sphere between her hands. "We just set off onto the Sea of Glass, chip away a hunk of ice and store it in the jar I brought. Then when it melts, we're done." Straightening up, Isla wastes no time in lobbing the snowball at Varus's back. She is no warrior, and her throwing and her aim could use some work, but he's point blank so that should work in her favour, right?
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
Am I that easy to read?” He asks before he throws the snowball, his tone carrying some feigned offense. It doesn’t last as the snowball hits its target, though, and Varus is walking toward that very same rock – noticing that Isla’s fallen behind, but he continues to step forward, crunching through the snow. “Easy peasy, then!” He says, unable to keep the grin from his face – one that shifts into a gasp of surprise as he feels the thud of the snowball against his back.

And truly, that means war.

There’s a shift in him, his shoulders straightening and the Ascended glances back at her from over his shoulder, before he absolutely dives behind the shelter of the rock he’d thrown the snowball at, rolling more snow between his cool hands, before he pops out on the opposite side of the rock from where he dove, to lob the snowball back at her, aiming for her middle.

And then he dives behind it again, letting a bit of that soldier and assassin out for Isla to see in the name of a snowball fight.
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"Nooooo. No. Not at all." Isla says; she shakes her head no but her grin suggests yes, teasing and playful as it might be. And yes, it does seem as though their trip should go ahead without a hitch - until she commits a cardinal sin of starting a snowball fight with a seasoned assassin. The set of Varus's shoulders and the way he glances at her is enough for Isla to hold up her hands placatingly, but it's too late - with a peal of laughter, she tries to find a snowdrift to hide behind.

Alas, she is too late, and his snowball catches her right in the ribs as she tumbles to the ground. "I'm sorry!" she calls out, giggling and trying to heap more snow to make a wall to act as a defence. And if she fires a few weak snowballs off in the meantime, it's entirely by panic and luck.
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
Well that’s some mixed signals, if he’s ever seen it. He chuckles against her denial despite her agreeing grin, before he’s stepping ahead and getting pelted in the back with a snowball. It shifts him, the set to his shoulders, and he dives for the rock he’d aimed for at first, snowball soon in hand, poking his head out quite strategically to throw it at her. He doesn’t expect it to hit her so hard, but they’re Ascended – they don’t feel it. So it’s nothing but a cackle of laughter that erupts from his hiding place, mixing with her giggled apology.

"Doubt that!" He calls out through a huff of laughter. A few snowballs manage to make it his way, some of them straying past, one of them hitting the rock and showering him on the other side with a fair amount of snow. And he’s not one to be outdone, having spent the time to make a few snowballs in preparation, trying to calculate where she’s settled. He’s gathered his three snowballs in his arm, clutched close as he pushes off from behind the rock to head toward the next snow drift, closer to the water they’re supposed to be approaching – launching the snowballs in her direction as he dives for the next bit of cover.
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When it comes to medicine, Isla is absolutely in control. Warfare, snowball or otherwise? Not so much. As Varus prepares behind his rock, Isla reacts entirely on instinct, building up her little wall fortress and flinging snowballs ad-hoc. Indeed, when he emerges from behind cover the medic isn't expecting it at all - she's just popped up to look for him, in fact, and so all three snowballs hit their mark with devastating hilarity.

"Medic!" she cries as she goes down, flailing dramatically in the snow and refusing to get back to her feet. Partially it's to make Varus come looking for her so she can stuff snow in his socks, but also it's because she's still coming around from being pelted by her boyfriend. The shame.
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
Oh he certainly doesn’t expect all three snowballs to land, and when they do and he ducks behind the snowdrift in a practiced motion, there’s a bark of a laugh that leaves him as she cries out for a medic. And of course, he gives into her – slipping from his snowbank to seemingly appear within hers despite the way she flails in the snow. It’s in perfect position for snow to get in his boots, in case you were wondering.

He kneels beside her in the snow, a wide grin crossing his face and betraying him as he looks her over with a clinical eye. “Looks like you took a hard hit. How’re you feeling otherwise?” He flashes her a playful grin, reaching out to grasp her by the hand and pull her up.
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ISLA
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He'll find her sprawled dramatically on her back when he arrives, and she (of course) takes the opportunity to stuff snow into his socks and shoes as he leans down to check on her. With an innocent grin that matches his own, Isla takes his hands and pulls herself into a sitting position. "I think I'll live. Can you believe it, though? Some brute attacked me with three snowballs all at once."

Huffing out a breath she doesn't need, rather than allowing Varus to pull her all the way to her feet, Isla instead attempts to drag him down and on top of her for good measure. If one of them goes down, they both go down and all that. "How close are we to the Sea of Glass, do you think?" she murmurs softly, leaning in to steal a kiss from his lips. "Close enough to make a run for it, in case some other snow soldiers come for us?"
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There’s a second where he thinks he might have the advantage when she stuffs snow down his boots and there’s what can only be a squawk of surprise that leaves the Ascended before it breaks into laughter, his hands still extending toward her regardless. “What horrible person would do such a thing to such a pretty face?” He teases at his own expense, already calculating how to get her back for the snow thats crunching around inside his boot.

She succeeds in dragging him down on top of her, Varus bracing himself from crushing her with his metal arm, using his other to take advantage of their positioning. “Oof, not far I don’t think.” He murmurs, grabbing a handful of snow and sticks it in her jacket while they kiss, before he’s pulling away grinning. “Oh, and Isla? Tag.” He smirks, pushing away and using advantage of the night for his enhanced bit of speed, pushing himself up and darting toward the edge of the sea of glass.
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Their laughter echoes through the night, and anyone passing wouldn't be blamed for mistaking them for a couple of raucous teenagers, rather than a seasoned soldier and field medic. "I have no idea. One without an ounce of honour, I imagine," she murmurs as she melts into their kiss, her eyes slipping shut which, of course, gives him ample time to shove snow into her jacket. And to tag her.

"Oi!" she squeals as he rolls away and dashes towards the Sea of Glass, Isla rolling to her feet and (after shaking the snow out of her coat) setting off after him, the darkness lending her quite the agility boost. "Varus Callahan, you get back here!" she calls after him, as if invoking his name should in some way make him slow down or stop. Even if he doesn't, though, at least they'll still get where they need to be.
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
Another bark of laughter leaves him at the idea of having no honor, something uttered from him that’s half in agreement and half not, before he’s leaning into the kiss and shoving snow in her jacket, and bolting toward the sea of glass. He thinks he might be able to make it before her, he counts on it even, until she’s calling him by his full name and the shock of it sends him sliding in the snow, jolting to attention as she flies past him and the dip of a snowdrift catches him off guard.

Hey that’s absolutely not fair!” He calls out to her back, laughing as he tries to jog and catch up, slipping this way and that against the ice he’s managed to find in his mad dash over. The sea of glass is right there before them now and Varus carefully tries to make his way to the edge, staring at a sheet of ice that sticks up on the embankment that’s clear enough to see through and absolutely distorts Isla’s face from where he looks through it. “Could chip off a piece of this maybe?” He asks, unable to keep the amused grin from his face with how Isla’s face seems shrunken in half.
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ISLA
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Isla is cackling as she bolts past him, feeling really rather proud of herself for managing to catch him so spectacularly off guard. Alas, it seems she doesn't know her own speed, and the Sea of Glass is upon them both before the medic has any chance of slowing down. So she goes sailing across the ice for a good few feet before losing her balance and falling on her backside, laughing all the while. "Life isn't fair, Cal!" she calls back to him cheerfully, before she's focusing on sliding to a halt and finding her footing again.

By the time she makes it back to him, he seems to have found a promising bit of ice, Isla tilting her head and nodding as she crouches down beside it. "I think this will do pretty well," she agrees, her shrunken face smiling up at him in the reflection of the ice as she pulls out the jar from the inside of her coat. "Would you be so kind as to use your big strong manly arm to chip a bit of ice for me?"
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you can't see, we've been falling from the 5th story, hope we don't hit the surface
Well that’s certainly true. Life isn’t fair, and if anyone knows that it’s quite possibly him. Just tack on ‘long’ somewhere in between and it’s a fairly apt description. Still, he watches her slide across the ice before he finds the piece that sticks up, waits for her to right herself before she’s heading back toward him. “Careful, wouldn’t want you to fall in.” He hums to her with a cheeky grin, before he’s snickering at her appearance through the ice.

She agrees and at the mention of his manly arm he flashes her his own crooked squished grin through the ice, lifting his normal, flesh arm out of sheer amusement as he considers it. “Which one?” He teases her, sure he knows which one as he lifts the metal one soon after, angles his hand in a sort of shovel appearance, and hacks at the point of the ice to try and break through it to get a chunk of it off for her.
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