#rivervale_lodge

The DeBukes sent something weird...chewing gum. Big whoop right? Cheap gift. Only...when you chew, you spark with chimerical electricity all over! you can go along doing static touch zaps on folks (nothing lethal) as long as you keep chewing.

Of course, when it loses it's flavor, the magic is gone nd you must use a new stick

Weird and cool!

Odin does not think it is cool!

There's was also a card inviting her back to the farm. Clem signed it,but so did the Hearth, mountain and..Storm Murray

Ooo..

Jimmy returned all the stuff he stole from her since the school year started.

She didn't even know half those things were missing!

Apparently that's what he gave EVERYONE for Yule

He also sent something original, temp tatts.

Sally Mae's gift is separate from the DeBukes. It's a coupon for a hair place? and a photo?

The photo is of a black ghirl's hair, styled nicely, big whoop... so she's got 'ethnic hair' so wh..oh wait, she's got a LIGHTNING BOLt Design professional shaved over her ear!

!!!

with a note "if it's okay with your dad they can do this if you want"

Sally Mae got... well... dollar store perfume. In a fancy bottle!

Gonzalez got her a book of famous female sports legends! and the trials they faced!

Of course, that was for Christmas

Gonzalez and May both get braided "friends" bracelets.

May got her basketball cards

So everyone has given her something and...tick..tick? what's that hitting her window?

"Mmmph..."

Sleepy teenager is sleepy.

"Dagmar?" Klump? Klump

"I can't climb up there, I might break it" he says from outside

'it' possibly being the balcony

She shuffles out onto the balcony, in pjs. "Klump? What are you doing here? Is everything okay?"

"Yes, I am sorry, I forgot to give you your gift" He holds up, a rock!

A rock? Roundish is shape

It does have a bow on it, a blue one

She rubs at her eyes, a few sleepy blinks. "Oh. That's a nice rock, thank you."

"Good. Catch? And when you catch it, smash it in half" Klump says

"Smash it?" She leans over the rail, more awake now.

"yes." Very carefully he.. lobs it, granny style for ease and lift. She catches it, somehow it hitting the ground feels wrong despite the instructions.

"...Smash it..." A little frown...

"Yes" He says "A hammer is typical, but you are strong enough"

She hesitates for a second. "Okay... " and she tries it, leveraging it between bare hands.

And it breaks! Perhaps she is just that strong! perhaps Klump made a few pre break spots to make sure it would burst at the right spot

within that drab gray rock, what she has torn asunder reveals... beauty inside

"Oh, cool..."

It's like the bifrost in a stone!

"It is called a Geode...most are not like that, but still lovely. I thought, you would like that there are things in the world you can smash without guilt and make beauty. I thought you might like that some thing are so much brighter on the inside... normally I would warn of breaking just any rock open as it might be an anchor but ...well, nature wants this secret out. Do you like it?"

"I like it very much! Thank you, Klump!"

"Merry Yule and Cool Christmas" he says then his brow knits "I think it maybe the otherway around. Sleep well, Dagmar. "

"You too, Klump. Thank you.:

And off Klump goes.

She shuffles back inside, putting the geode beside Badger and Ship on the shelf of pride.

She knows , or tries to know, that material goods do not equal love. She knows, or tries to know, that it's not about how much you get. But for a girl who always got second best when she got at all, there is something to the gifts all lined up, big and small, cheap or pricey. However it is meant, it remind her of how she has friends, family, and yes love. And her eyes fall on the photo Santa left her. She has dreams not of old lives, nor horrible pst experinces as Samantha, but rather of sports and friends and her dad flipping flap jacks and tove worried it's gonna make a mess but letting them do it anyway and... yes, good dreams, HER Dreams. She sleeps warmly