Ice

(remember skating on the canal in Colorado?)

So there is this puddle that has frozen over, but it has dry grass or weeds or whatever sticking up so it has created little pockets of air all through it. Nothing that would ever hold a persons weight, but little fairies are iceskating on it.
Then they go home, and an old grouchy man comes by. It's bean decades since he did anything spontaneous and frivolous or wasted his energy. Kids are scared of him. And for good reason, because he snarls at their perpetual folly. Some kids about Andrew's age throw snow balls at him. One hits his foot (or cane if he has one) and you actually feal for him as he breaks through the top layer of the puddle in one little spot, and almost falls over. Thinking that is going to be the last straw, and now he actually has something to growl about - you feel for him and are almost mad at those thoughtless boys.
He looks up as he regains his ballance, and the boys are already running off to waste their strong bodies and energy on something else.
he looks at the ice.
It is so tempting. It is that thin fun ice, that just begs to be explored, felt, discovered. He remembers being a kid about the age of the kids who threw snowballs. He gives in to the memory, and just has fun doing a little dance and breaking all the ice, just has fun playing with these wonderfull thin layers and exploring the whole curious thing. (can you imagine dad, when nobody's looking, suddenly start to play with something as tempting as layered thin ice?)

A big brother and little sister elf come back. The little sister had left her iceskates (elf ice skates are made out of pine needles and such things like that) Anyway, she is sad because they have (or at least one of them has) fallen down into (what to them is) deeper layers of ice. The big brother is brave, and helps her get down there and explore and find them.
(you could see them when the man played with the ice, but wouldn't have noticed them unless you went back and looked for it in the picture.)
What they discover is beautifull breathtaking ice wonderland ice caves. They retrieve her ice skates, but the place is so wonderfull and beautifull, that they decide to make it their new palace ice skating place. All the elves decorate it and fill it full of light, and have a big party in there, under the stars. It's so beautifull.
Anyway, they are frost elfs, so they go and decorate the mans place (maybe he's homeless, or has a small house made out of odds and ends - at any rate he's poor) with beautifull frost patterns and icecycles, ect. (not sure whether to show this part of imply it)
anyway, he wakes up and comes out and sees all this fun ice stuff to discover, and continues his new found happiness of childhood.
He is suspicious who could have seen him playing with the ice, furthermore, who could have created this ice wonderland on and around his place.
As he walks by the puddle, now fairy ice palace, he stops and double checks it suspicously. It is just an old gray broken frozen over puddle.
As he turns away, the puddle starts to glow faintly. As fairies can be unseen if they want to, but truely it is full of fairies.
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