Violetta glanced up from her packet of chewing tobacco, and glared. Her gaze was met by two blankly soulless coal eyes inset roughly halfway up a small sphere of snow that, in spite of gravity, was perched on the end of the crystalline twig. The thing slid towards her, slowly. It took a moment for her to properly understand how the snowman had skewered itself onto the trees branches. They were learning. Obviously, too many familliars had fallen into the sky for her to keep on doing that forever. Violetta tried not to feel a little impressed at that feat of reasoning and just melted the thing in a puff of liquid burning.. The earmuffs twirled in the breeze as they fell away, before the fire burned even that.
Still, lesson learned. Don't mess about in a witch's labyrinth, because it's not a circus. Tall imposing carnival folk with masks and alibis and a desire to take young girls somewhere where their parents would never find them were the least threatening thing here. Violetta tried to supress that little memory and stood up, pocketing the wad of tobacco. She bounded down to the ice sphere, and landed softly on the thing close to the man-sized hole her comrade-in-arms had left in it. No reason to bother her now, she'd probably just get in the way. She glanced up, trying to fight the nausea of vertigo, and scanned the trees for any flash of purple in the white snow, while also keeping half an eye out any of those new snowman familiars.
Still, lesson learned. Don't mess about in a witch's labyrinth, because it's not a circus. Tall imposing carnival folk with masks and alibis and a desire to take young girls somewhere where their parents would never find them were the least threatening thing here. Violetta tried to supress that little memory and stood up, pocketing the wad of tobacco. She bounded down to the ice sphere, and landed softly on the thing close to the man-sized hole her comrade-in-arms had left in it. No reason to bother her now, she'd probably just get in the way. She glanced up, trying to fight the nausea of vertigo, and scanned the trees for any flash of purple in the white snow, while also keeping half an eye out any of those new snowman familiars.