"Ice cream drops all at once when it does, though," Talrovian answered easily. Talking about dropping candy and the five-second rule? Totally a fine topic of conversation! And the little taytatay answered so very easily! Talrovian liked him already. Even if he liked mostly everybody already. "Then all you've got is some sad little lump melting on the ground and nothing in your hand but an empty cone. Unless you could get a free refill! That wouldn't be so bad then."

He plopped his last few recovered candies into the cup and then, still crouched, put his hand to his patchwork heart. "Legally I'm Talrovian, but I'm aiming to get that changed to Thomas! Happy to meet you, Pippin!"