come visit him instead! Seychelles is very nice this time of year!

would have loved visiting him if he'd invited her; Iceland got very boring and dark this time of year. She prepared a warm fire and had

pulled out every book about fish that she had owned, lining them up alphabetically on the living room floor.

that next time they have this meeting, they can come to Seychelles. Or even relocate if they're completely miserable. He's hoping that Thora

some hot chocolate. He really does like that drink if he's going to have to suffer in the cold. But otherwise, he's very excited about this

meeting! He's armed to the brim with all his rough drafts that no one was really interested in reading. Excitedly he knocks on her door.

doesn't get many visitors, so she may have went a bit overboard with baking cookies and other treats for him. She opened the door eagerly

and forced herself to maintain as close to an impartial expression as she could… she didn't want to seem *too* excited about this. "Hei."

smiles brightly when he sees his fellow aquatic life appreciator. "Bonzour Thora!" he greets happily to the other, although he's quite

shivering at this point. Mon dieu! He was such a weather wimp it was ridiculous!

ushered him in to the small, but warm house that smelled strong of gingersnaps and cupcakes that she may or may not have decorated to look

like fish. "How was your journey?"

starts stripping off of his overcoat and takes off his scarf and hat and mittens as he gets comfortable in Thora's house. He smells

the pleasant aromas of gingersnaps and cupcakes and if possible his smile just got bigger. "Looks like someone has been busy for our meeting

!" he exclaims. He walks over to join the other, "Oh the journey was fairly uneventful. I got a lot of ideas on the way over here though!"

flushed. "No… I just felt like baking." She scoffed, taking his jacket from him and hanging it up on a coat rack that stood taller than she

did.

grins. "If you say so Thora~" he says in a rather sing songy voice, as the Icelandic girls takes his coat. "Either way it smells delicious!"

"Thanks." She said, unable to suppress her excited grin at having a guest. "Want anything to drink? Or eat?" She wouldn't even try to feed

him her weird food, that's how happy she was.

somewhat grateful at being not forced to eat weird food. Living with Ann for 164 years was more than enough strange food for him. "I

actually wouldn't mind having a cup of hot chocolate. I find that always helps me adjust to the cold better. Can I help in any way?" he asks

if he were one of her sisters she would have made him get it himself, but since he was a guest she shook her head. "No, sit down." She

said with a smile while motioning to an old couch next to the stacks of fish books that were mostly in Icelandic.

frowns at the fact that he can't help in any way, but follows Thora's request and sits on the couch. "If you say so..." He understands what

it means to play the role of host and how seriously one can take it. Besides, there's stacks of books on fish books! He can't read them,

but he can look at the pretty pictures of the fishes! He's also begun taking out his own books and rough drafts of the stories he's been

working on so Thora can peruse through them.

quickly makes two cups of cocoa for them and prepares a tray with anatomically correct shaped fish cookies that she had spent much longer

working on than she would have ever admitted to. The mugs of cocoa teetered on the edge of the tray as she returned to the living room._

"Here." She said to him, trying to set it down on a small end table as neatly as she could without spilling anything.