"I could not find one."

Okay, that was only partially true. In fact he hadn't looked all that hard to begin with and had simply grabbed the first long sort of vegetable he saw.

But he will at least set about gathering snow and packing it onto the already formed mounds, trying to make them look a little bit more even - especially now that he knows each one is supposed to be a different size. Soon, they're looking far more round and appropriate, like they may yet actually earn the term 'snowman'.

"I have never seen snow like this."