springing [age event: end]

[dustless]

All across the castle grounds, anyone awake to observe the midnight hour is witness to snowdrop flowers bursting from the snow.

The air settles to something softer, warmer. The layers of ice and snow start to melt away, enveloping the world in a gentle fog, though it will still be a few days yet before the slush outside dries away.

Almost tentatively, more flowers push their way from the ground; leaves on trees bud and start unfurling by sunrise. 

Inside, the distant caroling and laughter gives one final burst of cheery sound before fading into nothing. Between one blink and the next, the castle is back to how it was; faded, old, quiet.

And, of course, the changed beings of the castle will find themselves back to how they once were, with added remembrance of everything that happened while the world was encased in winter.


( falling )

 //don't forget, even if this is making it 'official', backdating for more age-related shenanigans is absolutely allowed!