"I wasn't sneaking when I hit you the second time! In the face," she pointed out, hearing the change of position in his voice and deciding to make a break for it in the opposite direction, half-tempted though she was to slip out of her overskirts entirely. Unfortunate though it was that she had to give away her position, Claire didn't want to trap herself into a corner all in the name of a solid defense. That wasn't the point of a snowball fight, after all.

The whole point was to get dirty.

"But yeah, the petticoats aren't easy to run in," she agreed, rounding a nearby lamp post. "I just figured you'd need a bit of a handicap!"