EXCOLO

So hot they were swimming at Christmas. shake my head an grin back at her. "That's crazy! But kinda cool too. We had snow up to here-" I tell her raising my hand up to the top of my hip. "Long-time residents said it was the most snow they'd ever seen here." Plenty enough to make those snowmen.

My grin gets wider when Gen blushes and tells me that yeah there were cute girls and one that she liked even if it took her a bit too long to actually go talk to her. "That sucks. One of the bits I don't miss 'bout the travelin' lifestyle. Not enough time to get know the cute guys n' girls we meet."

Then she gets quiet, well quieter, for next question, Has anythin'...weird happened? You know, like them bad dreams, or the snowstorm in summer?

All a sudden I feel a bit nervous. This is Excolo where weird stuff keeps happenin. An' not the Carnival where things are a weird but it's kinda a stable sorta weirdness. Here weirdness is like the weather, every so often things get weirder for a bit and then it goes back to normal and then the next new weird thing happens.

But you only really understand that if you live here. Don;t know if Gen'll understand that given that the Carnival was only here for a year or so an' she didn't live town neither. So I just shrug and tell her. "Yeah. It's Excolo. 'Course weird things happened."

Run my hand through my hair an add, "Just last week we had not just one swarm a butterflies but three. An they was all different colours too."

There was also the couple a days that everyone was speakin' different languages, so that hardly anyone could understand each other. But I don't feel like mentionin' that.