[ Sports are not particularly a strong suit for Cal, mostly he watches from the sidelines.... though, hockey does look like it could be fun at least. Or would be if it didn't seem to be centered on 'beating the other team down into the very ice'.
Eventually, when the thralls come out under compulsion to play he finally ducks out. There's a group of other students throwing snowballs at one another, so Cal picks up a handful of snow and shapes it with his worn gloved hands - pulls back to aim and is promptly smacked in the back of the head with the frigid frozen water. His snowball goes flying in the general direction of another novice who seemed to be very much uninvolved in much of what was going on around her.
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Eventually, when the thralls come out under compulsion to play he finally ducks out. There's a group of other students throwing snowballs at one another, so Cal picks up a handful of snow and shapes it with his worn gloved hands - pulls back to aim and is promptly smacked in the back of the head with the frigid frozen water. His snowball goes flying in the general direction of another novice who seemed to be very much uninvolved in much of what was going on around her.
Whoops. ]