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Superior says.
    "Really, is NOW the time for a 'Your mother' joke?" Nico asks.
    "I am hearing you, you know," Tatiana says dryly. "I have the security, you will be lowering the wall now, Nicolas! I must be back to check on Marie, soon," she says. The laser wall sparks and disappears on their side of the campus and Superior grabs two of the snow blocks and heads in. He drags them in two by two, setting three in one spot and the other three in another.
    "Now, time to get the prizes," he says, taking off before Nico can reply.
    Morning comes and all of the students pile out of the school, staring in wonder at the snow that decorates their front yard on either side of the tree. Emily steps out, dressed in her paint splattered snow suit, waving her mittens in the air. "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" she yells. "We're having a snow day!"
    They look at each other, silent for all of a moment before starting to cheer and race out into the snow. Ditto and Repeat pop up in their assigned spots, explaining what's going to happen and handing out black or white snow hats to show whose team people are on.
    "And whatever team wins will get a very special prize from my grandpa, Superior!" Emily says, turning and looking for the prizes. "Um, Grandpa, where ARE the prizes?" she asks.
    He tugs open a large cardboard box and pulls out a square cube of glass. "These are the prizes," he says, tossing it to her. She grabs it, staring at it blankly.
    "You win a square piece of glass!" she announces a bit blankly, faking a smile. He walks over, touching the top of the square she's holding, and the entire group stares in awe as the glass warps and shifts, leaving a perfect miniature version of Emily reaching for a tiny, but perfect snowflake.
    "You win whatever you want," Superior says.
    Max is the first to react. He tugs his hat lower and points at Trent. "You are going DOWN, mister," he says, scooping up a huge ball of snow.
    "GAME ON!" Emily shouts, hugging her statue to her chest and giving her grandpa a massive smile. "Best Christmas EVER," she tells him happily before handing him the statue and racing off to judge the fight.
    And then it starts to snow.
     

Advent Calendar - Day Six
    Ward looks at the menorah, feeling extremely hesitant. So, according to the internet, this is the first day of Hanukah, right? And they had talked about celebrating it, right? So he'd done some searching and found a simple enough list of things to do--you know, the sort of stuff Jewish people did for the really little kids. There's supposed to be the story about the Jews reclaiming the temple and their religious rights, and God refilling the oil over and over, and the lighting of the candles, and some sort of fried pancake--
    "WARD!" Carla bellows, making him jump. The poor menorah gets knocked over and he yelps, picking it up and making sure he hasn't broken it. "Mega's here!" she says, appearing behind him. "Oh, that's so pretty! Is it for tomorrow?"
    "Yeah, but--"
    "I think he found out about the Advent Calendar," she whispers seriously. Ward's eyes go huge and he panics for a second before groaning.
    "You're kidding me," he mutters, burying his face in his hands.
    "He probably wants to help," she says, patting him consolingly on the back.
    "So this is where you're at," Mega says from behind her. Ward jumps again, turning to look at him. "Well come on, we've got work to do!"
    "I--" Ward looks at the menorah and sighs, giving up. It would be disrespectful, right? Since he's not a Jew. He was feeling nervous BEFORE Mega showed up and gave him an excuse to give up. "Fine," he says, pushing the things away and standing. "What are we going to do?"
    "Did you have something planned?" Mega asks, surprising Ward.
    "Not really," Ward says, shoving the menorah further behind him with a gentle prod of his foot. "Just something stupid. What did you do?" he asks, KNOWING that Mega's already done something.
    "I thought about it for a little bit--although I had to find out about it through