Why people don't like spirits

[shardofwinter]

The weather has been irritatingly unpredictable this year. Sunny one day, a blizzard the next. It's almost impossible to plan for. Today Reynard has made sure the Nexus is smothered in a thick blanket of snow, and it's nearly perfectly smooth. The Nexus might as well be a different landscape. It's hard to tell what a person is stepping on until they take the chance to wade in. Bins, boulders, benches, street curbs are all probably the most normal things a traveller might find themselves cracking shins and toes against.

At a very strategically chosen point however, some poor people find themselves in a bit of a bother. After getting this far all it takes is one step and they find themselves chest deep in the snow. Struggling will only testify to how packed tight the freezing blanket is. Digging themselves out might be possible, but slow.

It doesn't take long before a sing-song voice comes through the air.

"A house for a five headed creature,
A tool that carves rock and earth,
A measure against misadventure,
A gift often owned from birth."

Reynard walks on top of the snow with his usual confident stroll. He crouches in front of his unfortunate victim, tilts his head and asks, "What am I?"

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[shardofwinter]

Reynard's smile is thoroughly gone now. Instead he watches the stranger with a look of reproach and slowly raises a single eyebrow.

"Oh, is that what we're doing? Making gross assumptions and being passive aggressive to each other?"

[not_the_question]

The Doctor chuckles, but he's not actually amused. He kneels down and releases regeneration energy into the snow. It melts the snow in front of him until there's pavement. He stands back up.

"Well, the snow is good for something, I've been holding that in for far too long."

He nods his head and turns to start to walk away, no sense in talking to someone who is only interested in being cruel, besides, he figures some people need help. He can do that.

[shardofwinter]

Reynard simply watches him walk away, eyebrow still raised. Of course, the melted snow almost immediately turns to ice. The path the Doctor walks from now on will be doubly hazardous as it freezes or half melts, becoming as difficult to manage as possible. But Reynard won't chase, he'll just let that awkwardness follow the other while he stays behind and fixes his ruined patch of Winter.

[not_the_question]

Reynard will be sorely disappointed. The Doctor don't have nearly as many problems as the man thinks he will. But that's what happens when one is used to walking on many different planets and in many different environments. It doesn't hurt that the Doctor has both his sonic sunglasses and his sonic screwdriver to help him navigate the path.