[center][h2][color=#FFD967][u] [b]Tanner Harwell[/b] [/u] [color=#FFD967][sup][sup]Current Location: Snowy Mountains, Northern Districts[/sup][/sup][/color] [img]http://i.imgur.com/rX5zgAo.png[/img][/color][/h2][/center] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/i6fLcHF.png[/img][/center] [color=silver]It had been the difference of a second between Lauren's interruption to the sudden pelting of a snowball. The surprise threw Tanner for a loop, startling the cadet as the cold snow blinded his eyesight. Slipping on the snow beneath him, Tanner fell backwards on his bum while his gaze darted the nearby surroundings searching for the perpetrator. Gabriel had made it too obvious that it was him all along, the boy shouting and waving his arms around as he scooped another cold ball of snow. Scrambling to his feet, which was proving difficult with the wet snow, Tanner made haste for cover to the tune of smothered laughter from Olivia. The cadet was hit just the same as Tanner, and he wasn't about to let Olivia take the best hiding spot. Ducking behind one of the cabins, Tanner hid from the impending doom that was resulting outside the cabins. The braver cadets might've considered the boy a coward for hiding behind the cabin wall, but he was beginning to use the safety of the cabin to prepare his fleet of snowballs. Taking the time to perfectly mold each snowball, Tanner refused to peak outside the safe area he had found until a sizable number of snowballs were sitting neatly in a pile. The snowballs reminded Tanner of stored and stacked cannonballs, although certainly smaller than the actual product. Snatching his creations in one arm, Tanner began to chuck a snowstorm at Gabriel, the cadet unrelenting in his payback for the previous snowball to the face.[/color] [color=#FFD967]"Take that, Gabriel!"[/color] [color=silver]Tanner shouted, throwing a snowball with all his might as the boy smiled. He had smiled before around his friends, yet for the first time, Tanner felt as if he was truly enjoying himself. Perhaps with the aid of those he now called his friends, he was finally breaking free from the introverted shell that had enveloped him. or in the end, it might just be all a ruse. Whatever the case was, Tanner refused to let his odd thoughts distract him from serving a cold dish of justice to Gabriel.[/color] [hr] [center][@Ambra][@LordVoldemort][/center]