Too darn cold

[Zxaine Fisher]

Zxaine hated the cold, and in return the cold hated her. It made her ache and tremble and overall just not be a happy camper. She avoided it wherever possible and as such always took care to bundle up when she was forced out of the warmth of indoors to the frigid outside. Now she was stuck outside, not because of any lock or door... but because her scarf had gotten snagged by that infernal, icy wind and was now flapping helplessly from a tree branch well out of her reach. She stared up at it, her peacoat pulled tight around her and her fingers stuffed deep in her pockets for warmth. I guess stared is too nice a word, more like glared up at the traitorous piece of fabric, abandoning her like that.

It was too bad that she was stuck in the gloom of the cold, as the day was rather beautiful. The sky was mostly clear, what clouds in the blue mass were wispy and cotton like. The wind only blew in gusts, and when there was no wind it was ALMOST tolerable. Almost. As it was she was standing in a pile of snow at the base of the tree, idly wondering if she trusted her tree climbing skills enough to venture after it. The wind picked up again and cut through the jacket, causing her to squeal and tuck her head closer to the woolen jacket as if that would protect her from the cold. Her hair whipped around her and she sighed, stepping back towards the maintained walkways and plopping to a seat on a dry spot of the path. She leaned her back against the snowbank and dropped her sunglasses from atop her head onto her nose, pulling her phone from her pocket and starting to idly play a game while she waited for that scarf to decide to pull free of the tree and hopefully drift towards the ground where it could be retrieved. She might be there awhile...

"Too bad it's so cold out... otherwise it would be a beautiful day.." She mumbled to no one but herself, "Can't wait for spring to arrive..."

[Idalia Tsavaris]

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Idalia was asking herself for the hundredth time as she snuggled into her coat just why she’d turned down the job in Florida. Really, beach, sun, sand, warm, the only negative was… oh right, ex-boyfriend worked at the same station. Well, that would have been a thousand sorts of awkward. She wondered mildly if he had calmed down or if he really had found the ‘someone who needed him’ like he always wanted. Idalia shorted in a little laughter. Well, she was certainly not that girl. Idalia was on her way to a meeting. Her rather, rage induced visit had not gone over well and Idalia was here to apologize. With an ample amount of sleep she was hoping to speak with whom she had torn to pieces a few days earlier, she was relieved that they had answered her email at all. It was a good thing she was too weary that day to really be cutting and only proceeded to yell at them ‘not to do that!’ Really a supercell in January. Preposterous!

She had been surprised by now calmly the Hammel staff had received her and how sympathetic they were to her plight, despite the fact that she was raging. She’d gotten a great deal of sleep and called immediately when she realized that she was half out of her mind when she’d come last. She was a little early coming out just after work. She was on nights this week and had gotten off of work a little while ago and was going to this meeting then home for a warm ‘dinner’ and then bed. She was hoping to get something of a seminar so that this kind of thing didn’t keep happening. Idalia was a little early and after giving her pass to security she smiled and wandered the courtyard of her old school and had a little trip down memory lane.

Idalia smiled at a student who was looking rather angrily into a tree. Ida stifled a laugh when she saw the scarf. She approached with her hands in her coat pockets just following the path in a way that lead her in that direction. “What a wish,” Idalia said cheerfully catching the musing, “I’m sure we all wish for spring but without the winter the spring would hardly be something to celebrate.” She smiled and paused looking up into the tree and gave the girl a sympathetic look. She didn’t know why the girl didn’t just climb the tree. That was what Idalia would have done. Well, had she not been in her business attire.