How about an impromptu challenge?

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Since today is celebrated as GROUNDHOG DAY, how about writing a drabble, a poem, or a brief story related to the day and what Illya and Napoleon have to deal with...

No word limit, just something spontaneous! Serious or fun, your choice and of course keep it gen.

According to Wikipedia:

"Groundhog Day is a popular tradition celebrated in Canada and the United States on February 2. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees a shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks, and if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early. While the tradition remains popular in modern times, studies have found no consistent correlation between a groundhog seeing its shadow or not and the subsequent arrival time of spring-like weather.^[2]

The weather lore was brought from German-speaking areas where the badger is the forecasting animal. This appears to be an enhanced version of the lore that clear weather on the Christian Holy Day of Candalmas forebodes a prolonged winter.

So go to it writers!