( 54 ) [voice]

[filial_guardian]

Another clear day. Snowfall is becoming less and less frequent with each passing week. ...But spring weather can't come soon enough; the lake needs to get warmer.

[There is a significant pause here, hesitant, before the scribbling for a journal lock is done.]

[Filtered to Shirley - 99% unhackable]

Merines? May I see you?

[ooc: Affected and

Comments

[Filtered toWalter - 99% unhackable]

[prayingone]

Of course, Walter... are you at home, or is there a place that you would like to meet at?

[Filtered]

[filial_guardian]

[It would be so much simpler if he had been in the house.]

I was just out at the south lake. [trying to get over how stupid his nervousness is] I wouldn't want you to walk all the way out there.

[Filtered]

[prayingone]

No, that's fine... it's been too long since I've visited the lake anyway. [Shirley's gotten out of the habit of visiting the lakes daily since the cold set in; it's depressing, going all that way and not even being able to swim. But today, the thought of a cold hike to a lake she can't swim in doesn't bother her; after all, Walter's there and he wants to talk to her.]

[Filtered] --> [action]

[filial_guardian]

All right. I'll be waiting for you.

[And waiting is exactly what he will be doing. Just a little restlessly, turning a small box in his hands.]

[Voice]

[punchandsleep]

I want spring to get here, too.

[Voice]

[filial_guardian]

Soon enough. But the amount of snow made this winter tiresome.

[voice]

[xelhes]

When did the spring weather start last year?

[She would tease you about your late gift, too, if that filter weren't a hundred billion times stronger than she could ever deal with.]

[voice]

[filial_guardian]

Around this time last year. I wasn't exactly keeping track. [Now he's feeling like he should have.]

[voice]

[xelhes]

And not a day too soon.