[022. Do you wanna build a snowman?]

[lydiascreams]

[Open Video]
[When Lydia wakes up that morning her bed is much bigger than she's used to. Her room is the same, but different and it's colder than it should be at home.

Once the lights in her room are on, after she takes a peek out the door and doesn't find the rest of her house, she finds the phone there and has an urge to start the video.

She appears on the camera with hair uncharacteristically out of place, and still in her pajamas.]

Mom? Dad?


[Open Spam]
[Lydia decided to explore the place she's at. It's not grandma's house but she feels safe enough in this place and she knows her friends are out there. So she dresses herself and makes her way around the ship until she finds the deck. And snow!

She'll start with building a snowman.]



(ooc: Lydia is obviously affected. Replies will come from pricessariel. Although she doesn't remember exactly what happened or what the Barge is, she'll know if people she's friends with approach her and will be inclined to trust them.)

Comments

[smallsurprise]

[He'd gotten very lost, and through a combination of luck and instinct he'd found his way to the deck.

He's 9, but he looks all of six where he stands in a little nook on deck, looking at Lydia building the snowman.]

C-can I play too?

[princessariel]

[Lydia looks over her shoulder at the little boy and cocks her head, then smiles and nods.]

You can help me find arms for him.

[smallsurprise]

[He nods meekly but happily, then starts shuffling around on deck. Eventually he finds a wreath half-buried underneath the snow, and he all but rips it apart and comes running to Lydia and her snowman]

I found some!

[princessariel]

[Lydia looks up and considers for a moment, because everything needs to be perfect.]

I don't know if that'll hold up.

[smallsurprise]

[he frowns and holds the two branches up.] It'd look like he was being very serious, right?

[princessariel]

[She reaches out and takes one of the branches then holds it up to the snowman.]

Maybe if he has a funny nose.

[smallsurprise]

Oh! [He breaks the branch he's holding in half, then hands her a shorter piece.] Like this?

[princessariel]

[Lydia takes the piece and holds it up to his face, considering.]

Maybe! He needs a hat, too. And a scarf.

[smallsurprise]

[He reaches up and smudges the snow around, sort of creating a little hill around his neck.]

Like that?

[princessariel]

[Lydia giggles and smiles at him, nodding.]

Yes!