Hey, check this out!
The snow feels all crunchy!

Be careful not to slip and fall, Saki.

I'll be fine♪

*Sigh*
Is she really going to be?

Hehe. She's just so happy that it snowed so much.

Even though her nose always turns bright red when it gets this cold.

Hm...?

(There's something by the side of the path.)

Wait, that's a rabbit...made of snow?

Shiho, what are you looking at?
Hey, it's a snow rabbit!

The way it's sitting is so cute.

Hehe. Now that you mention it, I saw a couple of snowmen in the courtyard.

Yeah, me too! Whoever made them must've been celebrating how it snowed so much!

Possibly. Still, it's rare for someone to make a snow rabbit instead of a snowman.

True.

(This really takes me back...
I remember making these with Shizuku when we were little.)

(Even if it snowed just a little bit, we'd gather up as much as we could...)

(And sometimes paint some little pebbles red in place of the red berries we usually used.)

(But they always melted away by the time we came home from school, and Shizuku would do her best to cheer me up...)

Wait, there's only one here.
And it's in kind of a dark corner. Doesn't it seem lonely?

I have a feeling that it's there to keep it from melting.

Still, it does seem pretty lonely being all by itself...

Yeah, I thought so!

They say that loneliness can be fatal for a rabbit, so let's make some friends for it to hang out with!

Huh?

Hehe. That sounds fun. I'd like to make one as well.

Me too...
Especially since there's plenty of snow to go around.

Yeah!
Shiho, let's make some together!

No, I...

...!

Ngh...

Okay, fine...

Hmm...
I can't get mine to look like a real rabbit.

Try rounding your ball of snow into more of an oval. Then, flatten the bottom.

Oh, I'll try that...

Finished!

They shrank a little after we trimmed them to make them look nice.

Yeah, so why don't we just call them baby rabbits?

Hehe. Then, let's place them around the big one and...

Cool! They're all together now!
Now it's definitely not gonna feel lonely♪

...

By the way, what you said about loneliness being bad for rabbits isn't actually true.

What?!

Oh, I saw something about that once on TV. I guess they were right...?

Yeah. They tend to share nests together, but prefer to be alone when they go out and about.

W-Wow, I had no idea...
Where did you learn that, Shiho?

The pet simulator app I play with sometimes.
It popped up one day as a little tidbit.

Wait, but!
They don't not like hanging out together, right?!

Wah...! Th-They're social creatures, so I'm sure they enjoy each other's company.

Thank goodness! I wasn't sure what I was gonna do if you said they didn't.

(Either way, I doubt that you would've just let it be.)

Hehe. You seem happy, Shiho...

Hm? I do?

Anyway, let's go home.
You guys all had your fun, right?

Okay!