Coffee and chatting [Kardus/invite]

"Where did this book come from?" Hans asked, not forgetting so much as moving onto a different matter, one which was more relevant right now.

"Santa I think. Not THE Santa but definitely a Santa- think he's one of the Steves. Sol was the only one to ever see him... even after I said to wake me up when he stopped by," Daniella replied before Sol had a chance, unaware of their ability to understand eachother. "Haven't you gotten anything?" Daniella asked curiously.

Steves? Was that- is that what those masked spirits called themselves? "No, not really..." Hans replied, not wanting to tell her that he had been getting coal. Least it wasn't crashed through his ceiling, as he had heard some DOMA agents complaining about once. That implied that this... "Santa Steve" was somehow aware of them and their work, and he disapproved. But did he reward the villains of this city? More questions he didn't have a way to answer. "May I have a look, Sol?" Hans asked, Sol handed him the book and he cracked it open.

Just like before, the pop ups... popped up and moved around too intricately to be normal. The "Steves" also seemed to be hiding behind things as if trying to avoid him as he tried to figure out how one actually used this book at all. There wasn't a contents, and no discernible writing. Although he was noticing a theme going through the pages as Daniella tried to peer over. One section seemed to be underground in the mines and he recognized the similar attire to the Stocky Steve that had just left. They seemed to be too busy digging to notice or care about Hans. "Oooh lookit that one!" Daniella said pointing to a Steve that seemed to be digging without tools. He instead seemed to be doing what could've been a dance, or a style of martial arts that used a lot of stomping and directional movements. Hans went back abit to another section, and looked alittle harder to see if he could see something like that. He could not. Hans decided to close the book and slid it back toward Sol for now.

"Some of the marks in the fire section reminded me of home, slightly," Sol remarked off-handedly.

"So they ARE elemental spirits..." Hans said causing Daniella's eyes to widen.

"You understood Sol? Could you always or did you learn how?" Daniella asked both excitedly and curiously. Hans nodded toward Rose, drawing Daniella's gaze to her. "What did Rose do? Did she teach you? You're a fast learner if that's true," Daniella continued with both child-like naivety, but a sharp wit. Sol "smiled" in that his eyes bent into the shape of ^^.

"Really? But you said before you'd only been here for two days. Does this mean that demons share your language Sol?" Daniella asked, still skeptical that it was as simple as her just "teaching" Hans.

"I don't think they do. But that's how it happened, more or less," Hans replied, munching on his wings. It seemed like he had his work cut out for him. This town was just teaming with supernatural occurences one after the other. These Steve-creatures seemed like the next thing he should try to investigate.

"More or less what?" Daniella questioned.

"Hm? That's the gist of it really. Have these things been here long?" Hans asked for either Sol or Daniella to answer.

"They appeared before the snow started, and have just kind of been all over the place since," Daniella replied thoughtfully.

Well, then it sounded like there was some kind of connection. If they WERE elemenal spirits like he thought, and there was this unnatural weather happening, then that had to mean that a number of frost spirits- or a singular powerful elemental was behind this. Maybe this Santa Steve. He'd have to look into that. He glanced at Rose again and had an idea. If she could just enable him to magically understand these creatures... maybe he could catch one and interrogate it for answers. Or he could just wait for that Stocky Steve to return and... try to do the same thing. "Rose, if I may- I think I'm going to need your help to uncover the mysteries behind these Steve creatures. And based on what Daniella said, I think they may have a connection to the constant snow," Hans said simply.

"It hasn't really stopped yet today has it?" Daniella asked curiously. Hans nodded. It started up like it normally did and so far hadn't stopped, and that couldn't mean anything good. Maybe the elemental behind this was growing in power.

Hans had opted to go the route of vague, "she taught me" to spare Rose Daniella badgering her to teach her magic. It was ovious the girl wanted to learn more about it and while Rose had revealed herself capable, it'd be quite difficult and frustrating to try teaching her right now. Since Rose didn't seem to know how to even write. "He may be planning on questioning one of the masked creatures, which seem to have taken a liking to you," Sol chimed in at Rose's blank expression.

"Frost understands them? I thought they just made funny sounds," Daniella questioned

"Rose is a good listener, and I'm sure she'd be able to help 'translate' what they're saying. I'm not sure about their fondness though," Hans answered her sincerely, trying to subtly hint to Rose what she could do.

"They seemed to pay her more mind than anyone else. They've likewise also listened more to Daniella," Sol explained.

"They're a lot of fun- they 'sang' at karaokre and stuff. And they've loved having snow ball fights and making snowmen. But then the snow's gotten worse, and that's bad for Sol's health. Because the snow would melt if it touched him directly," Daniella chimed in. And yes it would've.