eighteen.

[dawn_is_coming]

[Sora has successfully dragged Riku back from his studying---and only with one punch, too. They'd trudged back to the cabin in the snow, linking arms in order not to lose each other in the worsening blizzard. By the time they get back to the cabin, Sora's hair is thick with snow and ice, eyelashes crusted with snowflakes

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[conniving_flame]

[he's not in the cabin, but at least some of his usual sarcasm is back on his face]

The fat man managed to come through.

[dawn_is_coming]

Have you met Santa? He always comes through.

[conniving_flame]

Nope. I never got that chance to. Too bad.

[dawn_is_coming]

[is pawing through the gifts, now, reading the labels]

Hey! There's one for you! Santa must be thinking of you, even if you are a Nobody.

[conniving_flame]

... I don't remember being a good guy this year.

[dawn_is_coming]

Maybe it's insurance that you'll be good next year? I dunno how Santa works, but he's a pretty good guy.

[conniving_flame]

[almost laughs]

The bribe is flattering, but I'm deducting points for lack of creativity.

[dawn_is_coming]

Don't you want to come open it?

[conniving_flame]

With my luck it'll be coal anyway.

[dawn_is_coming]

We could use it in the fire! [why do you even talk to the optimist?]

[conniving_flame]

[curse my masochistic tendencies]

Yeah, glad I could contribute. [he plays with the idea in his head until at last a portal opens up besides Sora]

Heh, screw your fire. It's my coal, so hand it over.

[dawn_is_coming]

[jumps a little at the sudden portaling---why do you do that? It is not fair]

The rest of us have to walk through the snow. Man.

[he hands him his present, smiling]

[conniving_flame]

It's good exercise for growing kids.

[takes it and examines the tag for himself. Indeed, it does say Axel]

You sure this isn't for my lookalike? [gives it a light shake and hears nothing]

[dawn_is_coming]

You're better than that one. And he doesn't even know about the cabin.

[conniving_flame]

[alright, that makes him grin; flattery does tend to work every now and then!]

Well if it is his, too bad.

[unceremoniously rips the paper off until nothing but the box is left. he's still very reluctant to open the thing since he's smart enough not to trust the ship, but. hell, at this rate, they're going to die anyway.]

Maybe he got me a Saix voodoo doll to burn. [takes a peek inside... there's nothing but a photograph...]

[dawn_is_coming]

[EXCITABLE KEYBLADER WANTS TO SEE. Sora's on his tiptoes, trying to take a look in the box]

What is it? What is it? A bomb?