"Yeah, I know -- I wasn't really thinking -- besides, I didn't have a lot of room in my bag", Adrien chuckled. "I really wasn't expecting to need more than that".

"It's alright. The weather here can be quite surprising, I can imagine", Val smiled.

"Did you have to get used to it, too?".

"Oh - no", Val replied, "I used to live far north in Thandice. I was already used to the winter there".

Now it was Adrien's turn to widen his eyes. "You lived in Thandice?", he gasped. He had never been there himself, but he knew it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world - it rose on the shore of a beautiful lake surrounded by mountains, its buildings of white stone shimmering against the water. "And -- and you came here?", Adrien said. Then he caught himself: "I -- sorry, it's just --".

"It's alright. This is not the first time I've heard this", Val smiled.

Adrien's brow furrowed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to --".