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[f4rr3ll]

Matt didn't know what he would ever do if the island stopped turning into a random winter wonderland each year.

Not because he liked snow -- he'd had enough of that in Jersey, thanks, and it was kind of refreshing to not need to worry about ever being cold for most of the year -- or because he was a particularly festive kind of guy

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[practicallyaguy]

"Aren't you a little old for tiny trains?" Zoe asked approaching him from the side. He definitely looked a little old, but given how much fun she was willing to be riding that thing was, she might just let it slide. After all, it was a tiny train in a winter wonderland that looked like it had been dreamed up by Dr Seuss.

Maybe it had. Sometimes she felt like doing her hair in crazy ways and singing. Not often, but enough to be suspicious.

[f4rr3ll]

Matt straightened up abruptly, as if he were startled at being caught doing he wasn't supposed to be doing. Like, oh, looking at weird, mysterious tiny trains. "That would be, uh, why I'm just, you know." He gestured vaguely at the train. "Looking at it. For, uh. Curiosity. Research. Something." Smooth.

[practicallyaguy]

"Dude, relax. I was just joking around," Zoe said with her hands up, palms facing him. Typical gesture of surrender and she wasn't even hiding some sort of weapon to betray him. Life was actually nothing like a video game, which meant that this wasn't going to get all that weird.

"I wa totally thinking about taking a ride on the tiny train. Because, it's a tiny train."

[f4rr3ll]

He exhaled, relaxing. He couldn't help but be paranoid. All because it was improbable that he would get yelled at for doing something like breathing on the train didn't mean that it couldn't happen. And Matt liked to avoid all scenarios where he could possibly get yelled at by crazy people.

"Oh, good, I thought you might have been the Tiny Train Police or something," he deadpanned. "And things never end well when the Tiny Train Police show up."

[practicallyaguy]

"Not at all. It always ends in Tiny Train tickets and Tiny Train handcuffs," Zoe continued equally deadpanned. She shrugged as if this was a perfectly normal thing to worry about. It was a safe and strange hypothetical. She loved strange hypotheticals.

"Then you have to go on the lam from the tiny law."

[f4rr3ll]

"Hiding in tiny caves and having tiny shootouts?" Matt struggled not to smile, buut the twitch at the corner of his lips betrayed him. "See, that's why I was just looking at the train. Running from the tiny law isn't how I want to spend my time."