No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day|Malagard

[Kender Bard]

Harmony bundled up warmly in her winter clothing. One good thing about her growing powers; she could sneak in and out of the house with fair ease so long as nobody came looking for her.

Not that anyone was, these days.

Something had happened to her father, and everyone was doing their damnedest to keep Harmony in the dark. It was more than irritating; it was downright insulting. Coupled with having had an extraordinarily boring time after the wedding in Anarlina (and after Libre had left; she'd moped and lamented his absence), Harmony was in a sulking, bad mood. Feeling she was going a little stir crazy, she'd decided to take a little trip.

After getting properly packed, she took her little allowance of saved copper bits (her mother was now giving her a little bit regularly for doing well in school and training), Harmony touched her sign and teleported into the city. She felt a trifle better for being out in the open. At least being lonely and ignored out here was normal.

Kicking a stone moodily over the hard-packed snow and ice, Harmony skulked around and tried to find some way to entertain herself or blow off some of her anger, whichever presented itself first.

[Devon]

Along Harmony's a path was a boy about her age who was very busy at the moment building something in the snow. It probably wasn't the most appropriate spot to build something at the time, but the boy didn't care. In his own mind, it was his small way of rebelling against, well, nothing in general. The boy shook snow out of his short brown hair and took a step back from his work to take a small break.

[Kender Bard]

Harmony looked at the snowman and considered bowling it down out of sheer meanness. But she didn't; she just couldn't bring herself to inflict random malice on strangers.

She didn't mind berating them. "Your stupid snow-thing's in the middle of the road," she complained at the boy.

[Devon]

The boy turned to look at Harmony and shrugged his shoulders at her. "So what," he replied calmly. "Its a project I'm working on, I'm going to build a whole lot more snowmen in the road. People can either knock them down or go around them."

[Kender Bard]

Harmony liked the first option instead. She walked up and started to kick the snowman down. "Yeah, well, it's annoying. And you're going to get in trouble by some grumpy adult if you keep it up!"

[Devon]

The boy shrugged again and went up to the snowman to start rebuilding it. "Who cares about some grumpy adult, they used to make snowmen too, so they might as well just enjoy them," he said to her.

[Kender Bard]

"Well what if they didn't?!" Harmony snapped. "What if you're putting up a bunch of snowmen and they're getting in the way of someone who didn't do any of that stuff when they were younger?"

She snatched up a handful of the snow and threw it at him, frustrated he wouldn't fight back.

[Devon]

"Then they aren't from Khelek," the boy replied simply. Calmly the boy wiped off the snow from his back and turned to face Harmony. "Have you ever made a snowman before?" he asked.

[Kender Bard]

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Harmony snarled in exasperation. "You know, usually when someone pushes you around, you push back! Unless you're just a wuss. Is that it?"

Forces, of all the people in Khelek, she had to pick on a calm one.

[Devon]

"I'm not a wuss," the boy said slowly. He was finished working on the snowman for now, so he turned and sat down in front of it looking at Harmony now.

"It's a snowman, I can rebuild it, so there is no reason to push back just because you feel like being a bully."

[Kender Bard]

"Yeah, well, you're strange," Harmony growled at him and stormed off. She'd find someone else to fight with.