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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 7[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]///////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (15/70)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b]  Sandswept Sky - Baur’s Reach
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She knew she’d been on to something with the tickling when she got some similar near sneezes, but the leaf alone wasn't enough. She ended up having to use her twin-tails as little ticklers, which put her right in the firing line hair when both the inevitable and the unexpected happened, as the bear sneezed itself awake as intended, but also sneezed so hard it catapulted itself out the other end of the cave 

[color=Aquamarine]”FuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck”[/color]  went Midna as Newtonian physics did their thing and she was hurled past the group and away into the woods somewhere.

The bear, presumably the bear anyway, then spoke in their minds about spring trapped under ice to which Minda’s response was to pull herself out of the bush she had landed in and yell [color=Aquamarine]”Then maybe don’t live on a freezing cold mountain then!”[/color] at the bear, but alas, her advice fell on deaf ears as the bear promptly went back to sleep.

She was then given a moment to think, and it was clear that this was probably the best possible outcome. The way was unblocked, and they were not in the midst of being mauled by a giant bear. Now Midna had suspected it might have been some kind of mystical guardian or something like the light spirits of Hyrule, but it had been a touch of a gamble. Fortunately it had paid off and the worst that had happened was Minda being forced to pick leaves out of her hair and sticking close to Sectonia for a bit to heal her bumps and bruises.

The sight on the other side of the cave, of snowy vistas, falling water causing a hanging mist all bathed in the pink light might have been worth being sneezed on, but unfortunately Midna took one look at the place and immediately had the pattern recognition bit of her brain lob ‘torch puzzle’ at her frontal lobe as she saw the set of unlit lanterns scattering the place and the prominent lit one sitting in the middle of it all. 

She ended up spending a bunch of time hovering around, using dry-ish branches to ferry the fire around to light all of them, because she knew that she’d not be able to let it go if she didn't, but not before getting dressed for the winter weather.

Midna’s gab specifically consisted of the uniform of an [url=https://i.imgur.com/9AZRAnS.png]X-naut[/url], that she’d gotten back a Rocket  HQ. The nice warm set of gloves, boots and bright red crossed jacket all snuggled up around her body, though her being a bit (but only a bit) lankier than them made her not the perfect picture of a x-naut down there (she wasn't round enough either by far) but fortunately this was all about heat, not infiltration. Up top her neck and flower face were snuggled in the cozy white ruff while her eyes were double protected from snow and snow glare by a set of goggles worn atop her mask and helm. Finally the hat sat on top of her fused shadow (replacing the sombrero) which caused the little flaps on top to stick up like alert bunny ears.

All in all, very snug. Amusing the outfit even came with a nice red and black striped stocking that wrapped around her flygon tail keeping even that added limb nice and snug and thematically on-brand. 

Her ride meanwhile got no such luxuries, but fortunately her wolfos was still nice and snug in its soft fur, and likely would be just fine for a fair bit of climbing yet.

With that all sorted, the princess, having been able to dress herself in a flash thanks to the way the alternate costumes worked, and her steed set about bounding around the clearing lighting up all those torches to see what, if anything, would happen as a result while they waited for everyone else to do their more traditional, and therefore manual, wrapping up.