The girl seemed to be okay, which was a relief. Lux laughed along with what she said, feeling glad that there would be no need to pay a visit to the Healer. "That is very good, no spilled tea or burns." Tea was a nice drink, especially on a cold day.

She moved to help the girl pick up her fallen things. "Nice to meet you, Emily. I'm Lux... the Puffer." She laughed, not taking any offence to being called that.

Jun shook his head. "She lets me do it now. Took a lot of convincing but eventually she gave in," And what a proud moment and day that was. Jun had actually bleached his hair the first time he dyed it. It was a bit easier to get any other color he wanted with blonde hair. Jun touched the few bangs sticking out of his hat. "You think so? Would I be able to pull off blue?" Or purple like Lolli had wanted him to do. Either way, he hadn't really had a bright color like blue or purple. But maybe he should just keep them in dark shades. Just to be careful. "But aren't you born that way? Unless people have discovered how to become one?" Because changing his hair color would be so much easier and no charms required.

Jun raised his eyebrows. "Hold your breath for a long time, and secret powers. Seems like you can have a fun life," Because powers in general were fun.

"Yes, very good!" Emma laughed, accepting the books and parchments that the Hufflepuff girl handed her. "Thank you so much for helping me. It means a lot." She smiled warmly, tossing her frazzled hair back behind her shoulders. She was so glad that the girl hadn't taken offense to being called a puffer. Some of them did, but she felt like it was better than having to say the whole long house name.

Shrug.


"It's very nice to meet you, Lux. So sorry it had to be during one of these embarrassing times.I totally owe you one" She giggled. "So, what brought you out here in the cold?"

Not particularly looking at one part of the sky, she stared off into the distance, trying to see further than she actually could. Only grey and white clouds filled her vision. Her imagination could make up for the lack of stars and space though, picturing the description of the nebula twin lobe hot gas star snow angel to the best of her ability. It sounded as complicated as it did beautiful.

"I vould like that." she spoke quietly, glancing towards the blond professor with a small smile. Dark eyes lit up a moment later as a thought occurred to her before she scooted around and sat crossed leg next to him. Her jeans were already snow soaked. A minute more wouldn't kill them. "This reminds me. I haff something for you."

With an excited nod, cause ESSITEMENT, she moved to grab something from her pocket, yet stopped in a sudden. Oh? "Izchakaytye..." she chuckled mainly to herself, reaching forward to take his hands. Oh, warmer hands. That was nice. Giving them a gentle squeeze to hold on to, she leaned back, tugging him along as she did so.

Theeere we go.

Catching herself before she fell back wasn't the only thing she had to try and catch. Hearing Airey attempt to speak her language was as foreign to her as she was to this country at first. Without the lost and confused feeling though. His at least trying warmed her from head to toe with delight. Snow be forgotten! "Blagodaria ti." She corrected softly with a small giggle, reaching in her pocket for the special something. "Or just...blagodaria."

He'd been close enough.

Permanently smiling by now, cheeks still a bit rosy from the weather and a twinkle in her eyes, her hands covered a little something as it was pulled from her coat pocket before she reached them out in front of her. "Hold out your hands."

Waiting with bated breath for him to hold out his hands, and even a few seconds after, she made a GRAAAAND gesture of sorta lifting her own hands towards the sky. "Haaaaaaappy birthday!" With a slow-mo woooooosh of a motion downwards, she gently placed the surprise gift in the middle of his cupped hands.

An egg!

...

Surprise!

Fiddling with her hands upon her lap, she bit her lip and leaned forward an inch, eagerly watching his expression. Yes, it was indeed an egg! And his reaction did not disappoint. On the other hand, her mystery factor was cut short, buuuut fortunately without any loss of excitement. From herself mostly. Observation results of Airey's standpoint?

Unknown yet amusing.

"Perhaps."

"Don't even think about it, Airey Flamsteed." Poke. He wouldn't though. Would he?...Noooo........Right?

Eyeing the egg, her suspicious thoughts disappeared once it was cracked against the rock. Having said nothing to stop him from doing so, she went back to fiddling with her hands, anxious for him to pull the two halves apart. Almost there! Almost. Her thoughts stumbled over his question. "Oh, um....actually, here. Hand it to me and hold your hands out."

Har har.

With her ears still ringing from possibly one of the most adorable laughs she'd ever heard, she gently took the cracked egg, making sure she held it over it's intended target. Yup, this was better. Was he ready? Because she was ready! Skipping the entire fake maneuver of opening the egg upon his nice jacket, her thumbs cracked the egg a little more until she pulled the two halves apart.

A stream of what looked like fairy dust enchantingly poured out from the inside and into the astronomy professor's hands, hovering just a mere inch from them and forming into that of the wonders of space. It may have been no celestial snow angel, but it was wonderful all the same.

It was miraculous the empty egg shells didn't crush in her hands. The nerves from whether or not the gift would still be in tact mixed with wondering if Airey would like it had her as tense as a rock. Or was it the cold doing that? The butterflies though, weren't from snow sitting. And Merlin's beard, they were killer. Killer butterflies! What a combination that was. Though the more she watched him...the more she started to smile.

Great griffins! If tummy butterflies could explode into a million small frantic snidgets, she certainly just experienced it!

Missing the 'could have been' accidental confession hesitation, she breathed a quiet sigh of relief and giggled as she fiddled with the egg shells, able to relax some. "I haff my sources." And that whole nonchalant tone she was going for worked out rather well. Mission success!

Making sure that the girl got back everything that was hers, Lux gave her a warm smile. "No problem. I know how much of a pain ice can be." She was no stranger to slipping on it, though fortunately most of the time she had only hurt her back slightly as a result.

Laughing along with Emily, she brushed it off. There was no need for her to be embarrassed. "We all fall on the ice, no need to be embarrassed. Do you want to make snow angels with me?" Suddenly she had remembered why she was out here in the first place, and figured that maybe Emily would want to join the fun.

"Yeah. A real pain. Literally." Emma joked, setting her things down on a nearby bench. Luckily, there wasn't any wind so she wasn't too worried about her things flying around all over the place.

Oooh. The girl invited her to go play and make snow angels. "I would love to! I've been working on so much homework and have been holed up in the common rooms for too long. I'd be more than happy to let off some steam and make a few snow angels!" She squealed. Today was actually turning out to be awesome. And then maybe afterwards they could go to the kitchens and makes some cookies and cocoa or something. Emma was no stranger to the kitchens.

Lux laughed, glad that at least Emily was able to joke about falling now. "Ooh, have you been to the skating rink yet?" Because she was wanting to go there again some time, and maybe Emily would want to come with her if she wasn't worried about falling over again.

WHOOO, snow angels!

"Awesome, a great way for you to get over stinky homework blues!" Plopping herself onto the ground, she started to make a snow angel, waiting for the other girl to join her in the fun.

"I have! It was suuuper fun! I'd love to go again soon before it gets removed or something.." Emma nodded, smiling as she plopped down beside Lux. This was going to be THE BEST DAY EVAAAAAR.

"Right? I swear I've been living in the library and the common rooms trying to get all of this stuff done. ESPECIALLY the Ancient Runes homework.." She groaned. That stuff made her head hurt.

Now it was time for some snow angels.


Emma laid back, extending her arms and legs back and forth, taking special care to not uproot the snow. That was always important. Messy, sad snow angels were not allowed in Emily Smith's world. No sirree bob.

"This is seriously the best! I just love winter, don't you?"

Lux looked up at all the snowflakes falling as she moved her arms and legs. "I hope they never take it away, because I want to learn how to skate properly." So far she had managed to do it pretty good, but she could still get better. "I found the Ancient Runes hard, but somehow I managed to get only one wrong." It actually amazed her, because she had guessed at least half of the answers and didn't even have any help in doing it.

Finished the first angel, she carefully moved over a little so that she could start on another. "Well, I love playing in snow, but I hate how cold it gets." She did not like the cold at all.

"I hope they don't anytime soon either. I'm actually pretty good ice skating.. don't let my clumsiness today fool you." Emma joked, smiling as she got up to make another snow angel. "Really? I got a few right.. but also a lot wrong..." She sighed, shrugging.

"I don't really mind the cold.. it's the hot that irritates me the most. You can fix cold... but it's harder to fix the heat.." She said, matter of factly.