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[With the onset of what seems to be an unusual cold snap, Hubert's betting on people being stuck inside with their journals for company and nothing much else to do besides trying to get warm. So he picks up his own journal to issue a plea for help:]

Does anyone know how to get someone's tongue unstuck from a frozen pole?

[The question is punctuated by incoherently dismayed mumblings in the background. Someone coughAsbelcough got bored enough to get himself into a bit of trouble and now Hubert has to figure out how to get him out of it. And so it goes.]

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[The entry makes him pause for a moment. Yup, someone was silly enough to probably do that.]

You could try hot chocolate. That could work. Just pour it over the other guy's tongue and Volia. Unstuck.

I don't know if we have hot chocolate on board...

Then hot water could work. Really any hot liquid could...

If not you may just have to yank the person off. It'll hurt a LOT though.

[He's totally not speaking from experience though, fyi.]

[Hubert winces a little, not that Cross can see that.]

Yeah...I'll try the hot water, then. Lots of people have suggested that. Thank you!

It's no probs...but who did stick their tongue on metal anyways? Can't be you.

My brother did. I told him not to, but...

Ahhhh, makes sense.

Little brothers never tend to listen to their older brother's advice. Just the way it is.

[Yup, he's assuming this kid is the older one.]

[Yeah, about that.]

...actually...he's older than me.

[He's his brother's keeper.]

Oh.

[Huh, he kind of surprised by that.]

Well, he's lucky to have a little bro like you than, huh? Gotta make sure he does his older brotherly duty and all.

[Imagine a world where Hubert was the older brother instead of Asbel.]

Yeah. He's supposed to be the next Lord of Lhant, so...I have to make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble.

[There's really not much else for a second son like Hubert to do.]

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