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identifications in snow. I’d imagine Pythia has the software to take that into account, but just using your eyes, you need to be careful.’
    ‘Jason was right. This is educational.’ Fox grinned, reached down, and began compacting snow in her hands. ‘It is cold,’ Kit said. ‘Why are you doing that?’
    Fox held up her snowball. ‘Traditional weapon of children wherever it snows.’
    ‘Weapon?’
    ‘Oh yes.’ Pulling her arm back, Fox launched the ball at Kit’s head. Of course, it went straight through and ended up skittering across the snow a few metres behind Kit’s avatar.
    ‘That wasn’t very nice,’ Kit said.
    ‘It would be less nice if you were solid, but that’s never stopped kids from having snowball fights.’
    ‘Children make projectile weapons from snow and then throw them at each other?’
    ‘They’re more like grenades, unless you pack them too hard. They tend to explode on contact and then there’s snow in your hair and eyes, and down the back of your neck, and that last one is a form of torture, believe me.’
    ‘It is?’
    ‘It is.’ Amused, Fox collected snow on her fingers and rubbed it on the nape of her own neck, and waited. ‘Ah, Jeezus! Like that.’
    Kit was flinching. ‘Why did you do that?!’
    ‘It’s educational. Had enough? It’s warm in the kitchen.’
    ‘I think I’ve learned enough.’ Kit walked out of the snow and started for the back door of the house. ‘That’s cold .’
    Fox kicked snow off her boots and then stepped through into the kitchen. ‘I’ll take that coffee now, Monique.’ She looked down at the black, knee-high boots and then decided to take them off, just in case. The heat was already taking the chill out of her skin and the tiled floor would probably be warm enough for bare feet.
    ‘Kit has been educated then?’ Monique asked. She was not wearing her headset, so Kit let Fox do the talking.
    ‘She has learned much. Mostly that it’s cold, and that she would rather not be in a snowball fight.’
    ‘Not that we get many opportunities for that, even here,’ Jason commented. ‘Eat something, Fox. We’ll have the main meal around two, I believe, and you can’t survive on coffee alone.’
    ‘True. Actually, I’ve got an enhanced liver so I need the food way more than the fluid. But I’m a sort-of-cop…’
    ‘So coffee counts as a major food group,’ Monique said. ‘Still, there will be toast in a moment, or I can make something more if you wish?’
    ‘How much are you cooking for dinner?’
    Monique laughed. ‘Too much, of course.’
    ‘Toast will be fine. When are we expecting to see Gaby?’
    ‘We’ll give it an hour,’ Pascal said. He seemed to be checking out the news channels or something since he waswearing his glasses. ‘If she’s not down by then, I’ll go up there with a bucket of snow.’
    Kit shuddered and Fox giggled. ‘Yeah, Kit learned that snow is cold.’
    ~~~
    ‘You know, that has to be the most colour I’ve ever seen you wearing,’ Jason said. They were in the lounge, opening presents. Monique would vanish periodically to check on the food, but mostly it was all about watching coloured paper being torn apart and listening to the laughter or other reactions that the contents produced.
    Fox looked down at her sweater. ‘What? I wear colours.’
    ‘Generally black and purple.’
    The sweater was purple in the majority, but with bands of white, pink, and rose. There was a keyhole over her chest, closed below her throat by a brooch. Her leggings were a dark blue. ‘I wear jeans… I’m allowed to wear colours.’
    ‘I am not denying it. I’m simply not used to it. I like the red, personally.’
    ‘It’s rose. I’m not wearing any– Oh, yes I am. Ha, ha, very funny.’
    Gaby burst into giggles and Fox focused her attention on the redhead who was holding up a little baby doll T-shirt with ‘I heart NY’ graphics on it. ‘Is this even going to fit me? Gaby asked.
    ‘Kit found some size