slip and slide - ice cubes

[fulzanin]

The ice covered dragon had an idea a few days ago. It was a great idea, just like all of her ideas were. It had caused her to toss aside her balloons again, scrambling madly in her search for what items she was searching for. An idea was heavily present in her mind and it denied being put away for the time being. Such was the case nearly every time Feza had a great idea. Whatever she was working on currently was tossed to the side, forgotten in favor of a newer and totally greater idea. Her claws shifted as she flung herself into her current form of her small dragon body. Rapid flaps of her webbed wings allowed her a swifter method to search throughout her odd party store home. She rutted through random piles of items and objects that were somewhat sorted, but still didn't quite make sense. Eventually Feza stumbled away, a victorious grin on her face. In her talons was an ice cube tray.

Food coloring was a little harder to find. The glacier dragon went racing about her home. Would paint work, Feza briefly questioned. It wasn't as if the ice would be eaten. Eventually she gave up her search for food coloring and settled for watery paints. She filled the ice cube tray's holes with the paint, and promptly breathed her freezing breath all over them. Feza popped the freshly made cubes from their small slots. Then the icy dragon began to shave away the sharp edges. Eventually she was satisfied with their cubular yet somewhat rounded shape. Carefully she tucked them back into the ice tray. Each cube was it's own color, and Feza had every color but red involved. It had irritated her, searching and searching for red paint only to come up empty-clawed. How saddening. Someone might not get their favorite color. Hopefully orange and yellow would work instead. She froze a nice part of the floor to keep the cubes frozen - not that it was really needed considering how cold it was inside her home. Feza relished the cold so much more than she did the heat. It felt nice and comfortable for once within her home. The glacier dragon went flying out the front door and set to work on the biggest part of the task. She had to clear some snow out of the way to make the ground even. Icing over the ground, then rushing back inside to snag some more paint. Carefully she finished creating all the neat lines, and hovered above her work. It looked nice, and that pun was entirely intentional.

Feza zipped back inside, putting away the blue paint canister and then grabbed the trays of ice cubes. She hobbled back outside, trotting over to where her latest festivity had been set up. Messy barriers of ice were present once again, although were a little better than the first time she had hosted an entirely ice related activity. "Okay everyone, I've got a brand new sport here for, for everyone!" The icy dragon declared. She was hovering over her work, a delighted grin present on her face. "I decided to go and- I decided to take that weird sport with the disks and mops and have made it more festive! This, uh, we'll call it 'icy cube game of super fun hours'! Great name. I'll write it down later. Uh, so, the game is that you slide the ice cubes across these, across the icy board here. If you can get it to stop in the middle, you get a point. Then another person will slide a cube- they'll slide a cube from the other side. Whoever gets the most cubes in the middle wins. And, and you can knock out the cubes too!" Her explanation was a ramble, as it usually was. Feza was excited, her feet kicking at the air as she continued to hover over the crude 'sport' that she had claimed to invent. It was a great idea, an inclusive idea, and she could not get the smile off her face.

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