Sure she might have seemed busy, but Toothiana’s eye had picked up a mischievious spirit as her lips curved into a smirk. “Jack, don’t think you can hide from me in my own turf.” She spoke up without even turning to look at him, but instead the colorful Guardian slid a golden compartment into it’s rightful place.
A curious bordem riddled Jack Frost. Not because of his inability to keep himself entertained, simply because of his fellow Guardians. They were ignoring him – unintentionally, he hoped. All busying themselves with their own devices, keeping the top secret projects hidden from the Winter Spirit.
It wasn’t fair. He was a Guardian, too. They practically groveled at his feet to get him to join their team, just to kick him to the curb a minute later.
Which is why, to settle his inner grumblings, he came to Tooth – the only Guardian who remains not having shunned him from sight. His last chance in solving the mystery to this puzzle.
❝Me? Hiding? Nah, don’t be silly.❞
But he had no time for playing another match of ‘beat around the bush’. Tried that with North – ended in a thirty-minute lecture on how Shashkas were the best Russian weapon ever created and (exact words): “Jack Frost, if you no get out of here right now I do Shashka on you.”
Jack won’t be so easily fooled by that trap again. This time, he hits his point like a bullseye.
{ ❆ } —- [ An unconscious step back was taken by the blonde, instinctively clutching her hands to her chest. She supposed that the boy was too lost in his thoughts to notice her presence, and that maybe an apology was in order. ]
”I apologize—— Startling you was not my intention.“
[ Her eyes couldn’t help but linger on him, though, wondering why she was struck with a bout of familiarity as she observed his features. But then it hit her—-
—-they shared the same features. It then lead her to wonder whether or not similar features entailed similar abilities, however, she decided not to be so hopeful and blame the similarities on coincidence instead. ]
”You look, er, upset.”
[He, too, notices their shared attributes. Sharp blue eyes, platinum hair. Positively uncanny. Yet, she’s most likely no more strange than any average Arendelle woman. No matter how unconventional her looks may be, he’d be a hopeless fool to think it could equate any similarities between to two – that someone as innocent as her would create such a winter, let alone, have the ability to.]
❝Upset?❞
[He chuckles; cold and exhausted, nothing straying from the norm.]
[But he decides to ignore the subject beyond that. No point in reciting his failure to one stranger.]
❝What are you doing all the way out here, anyway? Aren’t you cold?❞
⊰ ☼ ⊱—- ; She was simply dancing around and singing as if she had no care in the world, that is, until the abrupt sight of a highly unfamiliar face was spotted in the corner of her eye. The female now stood there, frozen, with no form of defense whatsoever.
“…Can I help you?”
Alright, yes – he was watching her. Though in his defense, he typically was granted that luxury. Most marked off his presence as nothing more than a mundane breeze like any other. But not this girl – no, this twirling girl had noticed Jack sprawled across the windowsill, frost collecting from the contact of his chilled body. Perhaps she was just as strange as him, with hair of unimaginable, golden lengths and an emerald chameleon perched on her shoulder. Never mind the fact that not many people would voluntarily remain in a tower all by themselves.
❝—-Maybe.❞
Not the most direct answer, but certainly a more interesting one.
The wind whistled as it guided Jack to his feet, granting him perfect balance for his large feet to travel with ease.
❝But I think the real question is if I can help you. Aren’t you bored?❞
[But he did. He witnessed as the mere contact of her fingertips to the window sprouted frost, similar to his own in vine-like patterns that crackles as it crawls.]
❝…–You did that? All on your own?❞
[Softly, he speaks. Sure not to spook her and have that wild, uncontainable power run rampant.]