Rosmira keeps LingLing’s and Rathem’s wrapped gifts tucked safely inside her silver-corded bag. The personal explanations can wait until Christmas Day, preserving the surprise.
Leon Wolfe
I was hoping we might see what you chose, but I suppose waiting makes the moment sweeter.
Nayla Iko
A little disappointing, yes. But this place makes it difficult to stay disappointed for long.
Cocoa steam curls through the toy village, bells chime from distant cottages, and the workshop’s cheerful warmth quickly lifts Leon and Nayla’s spirits. Jews and Kania remain elsewhere exploring, while Angust and Juliet reminisce with Santa Clause and Mrs. Clause.
Rathem
LingLing, if you ever need a guide through the snow, I am exceptionally skilled at following beautiful women downhill.
LingLing
How fortunate for the snow that I have no intention of needing you.
LingLing gives Rathem an amused, thoroughly unimpressed look. Before he can recover, Cammie approaches Rosmira with an eager wave, silver hair bouncing over his hidden eyes.
Cammie Clause
Rosmira, everyone is busy, so this is perfect! Want a private tour of the workshops and the attractions nobody remembers to show visitors?
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Learn more about Cammie on the village tour
“I follow cammie to what looks like a candy door but he said its actually his personal room door. of course my curiosity gets me first.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Agility, rolled +1)
Cammie Clause
This way, Rosmira. The candy door is mine, not an attraction, but you can look as long as you ask before touching anything.
Cammie leads Rosmira between toy cottages and a steaming candy kitchen. At the village’s edge, a bright door shaped like a peppermint drop gleams beneath a striped awning, its brass handle resembling a wrapped sweet.
Rosmira follows without hesitation, her curiosity drawing her up the short steps. Cammie reaches the candy-colored doorway, and she arrives beside him before he can make the invitation more elaborate.
Cammie Clause
You made it! It looks sugary from outside, but the inside is just my room. I keep instruments, projects, and things I am not finished explaining.
He places one hand on the candy-striped handle. The door gives a soft chiming click and opens inward, revealing a glimpse of silver hair ribbons, musical instruments, and colorful unfinished projects arranged in careful clutter.
Cammie Clause
Welcome to my room, Rosmira. You are the first guest today, so you get the best explanation of anything that catches your eye.
“Ros walks in and it reminds her of her trophy room back home with all the fur.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Agility, rolled +3)
Rosmira steps fully into Cammie’s room. The careful clutter surrounds her with instruments, unfinished projects, silver ribbons, and soft fur draped over several chairs and display frames.
Rosmira
This feels like my old trophy room back home, before the memories became more important than the trophies.
Her graceful entrance carries her between stacked instrument cases without disturbing a single project. The room’s fur-lined displays and collected oddities echo the shape of a private history preserved in objects.
Cammie Clause
You recognize it, don’t you? The room is messy, but every piece has a story. I keep the things I am not ready to finish yet.
Cammie watches her reaction, then crosses to a tall cabinet hidden behind a hanging silver instrument. Inside, an empty velvet-lined shelf waits beneath a handwritten sign: “For something worth remembering.”
Cammie Clause
That shelf has been empty for years. You can use it while you visit, if you find something here that belongs with your memories.