Ellerie-

:Lissa tells Sun she's going to go dance with someone else, and Sun's left alone. He doesn't seem bothered. I'm the one who's bothered. I didn't get the video! I guess I can go dance with Sun for now.:

Lissa-

;Yes! I'm gonna dance with someone! The boy and I start to dance. Obviously, I have to spark up some kind of conversation. Otherwise this'll be awkward central.;

;"So, what's your name?" I ask. 

pangolin~

I walk up the ice stairs into the ballroom, and my breath is taken away. "This is literally the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," I mutter, gazing up at the crystalline ceiling. 

"I thought I was the most beautiful thing you've ever seen," Pepper interjects. I sigh and shake my head. AEs, amiright? 

I'm cautious about stepping out onto the ice, and grip the railings of the stairs. I do not want to slip and fall on my tailbone. However, when I step out onto the ballroom floor, I don't feel like I'm going to slip. The Spirit of Winter must have made the ice not as slippery as well as unbreakable. I walk out on the ice, and admire the clouds of multicolored plankton beneath my feet.

Pepper- 

I adjust my choker necklace, glancing around the ballroom. "So who's going to dance with me?" I ask. 

-Kaede-

-I follow my CBer and sister out onto the ice. I spot a table made of ice. On it are tons of wintry snacks and treats. I grab a handful of caramel popcorn. Next to me, someone pours themself a mug of hot cocoa.

-"Hey," I say. "What's your name?"-

#Tempest#

Mx Out!

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! I MANAGED TO CRACK THE ICE!!!!!!!!!! It healed after a moment, but still!!!!!!!! I cracked it!

Wyyiz

Crepes is still staring at people.

#Sourdough#

#Agh. I am so nervous! No one has talked to me so far! what should I doooooo? Maybe I could just ask someone to dance....? No way.#

[Bagel]

[This place is so nice. I love the cold ice, so I lay down on in and fall asleep.] 

Ellerie

:Okay, either I'm a really bad dancer or Lissa is wrong and Sun is a good dancer. Honestly, I'll guess I'm a bad dancer, because I don't dance very often. But it's more fun than I expected! To dance, I mean. I don't even know why I expected anything, I prefer to only expect the unexpected.:

:Sun spins me, and I feel my face form a smile when I see Tempest, kinda far away. I want to run over to him and start dancing with him instead of Sun, or go to the snack table with him, but Sun's lost a partner already. I know he's chill but... still. Maybe I could, like, get Star to dance with him.:

:Or I could just tell him Tempest is here. Or both. So I take Sun's arm and walk over to Star and put her arm in his.:

:"Tempest's here," I tell them, trying to watch the excitement in my voice so that Star won't tease me later.:

:"|Okay, have fun.|" Sun says calmly. I smile, and walk over toward Tempest. But it turns into more of a run. I try not to shout but... "Tempest!":

Lissa-

;I smile. "Thank you!" I say happily. "I'm Lissa. Who's your CBer?"; 

Sun-

|To be honest, I don't mind that I've lost two dance partners. Star learned how to ballroom dance at school, so she's pretty good at it. So was Ellerie. I know the guys are supposed to lead, but when I lead I dance very badly. So I just let Ellerie lead, and she was surprisingly good. Better than Star is. Maybe later I'll go make some new friends. We'll see.|

#Tempest#

Lissa-

;I laugh. Star has nine AEs, and I know Pancake has ten, so I can relate to the siblings thing. "My CBer is Red Starlight. And having a ton of siblings is super chaotic. One of them is going insane, one of them freaks me out, and same, we're all weird. Except for Sun, he's weirdly normal," I say."

Ellerie-

:Soon enough I'm not the only one running, Tempest runs towards me too. When we stop, I see him briefly look at my dress, which I had totally forgotten about when dancing with Sun. Now its itchy again. Wait- did he see me dancing with Sun? if so, hopefully Tempest knows it was Sun.

:"#Hi#" Tempest says.:

:"Hi" I say back. I smile "I like your hair!" Tempest's hair matches the multicolored plankton under the ice. The pastels of them. And it looks really awesome, but I'm not surprised, he always looks awesome. Not that that's important.:

:"Whaddya wanna do?" I ask.:

#Tempest#

#I brush my hair out of my eyes. "Um, do you wanna... dance?" I feel awkward saying that. Part of me thinks, what if she says no? But the other part says, of course she won't, she likes you too! Ugh, minds are weird. I wish I could just not have one. But once I shifted my mind away and was stuck like that for a week, so... yeah, I learned my lesson.#

#"I never learned to that," I made a vague hand gesture that kinda looked like dancing. "Fancy dance, though."#

Aliza

They still haven't answered. Huh. I'd think they would care. I turn around on my heel. That's when I notice a snack table. Oops.

"NEVER MIND," I yell to deja vu-Elsa. "FOUND THE SNACK TABLE!"

I start walking over across the ice. There's an AE, I think, sleeping on it. I kick them. "Hey," I say. "What you doin' down there?"

Lissa-

;"What?! Good thing Pancake stopped her! Yang is Star's most insane AE, but probably not even close to Mx Out if she tried to bomb the house, with her in it. Yang would make sure his life was saved.";

Ellerie-

:My heart rate speeds up. I don't understand what it is about Tempest that makes it do that, but I like it. It's similar yet so, so different to how I feel when I, like, go skydiving. Tempest makes my heart do a lot of weird things.:

:Im slightly nervous to dance with Tempest, to be that close. But that also makes me excited in ways I can't explain. "Okay, dancing it is! I'll teach you how." I take Tempest's hand in mine, and walk him to the middle of the ice. I put their hand on my waist, and put mine on their shoulder. I take his other hand in mine. My skin tingles everywhere it touches his. "Here's dancing one o one, by me, your amazing teacher, Ms Ellie." I smile playfully. "So, you lead by, sadly, pushing me by the waist. And I control the distance with how much I bend my elbow. We count and step in twos," I say. That's how Star taught me. And then I start dancing.: