A/N: A drabble collection of Cirno! Or not. A collection of short chapters, yes.

Winter was here, just like last time. Snow covered the bamboo forest and the small garden of Eientei.

"You don't wanna die?" Kaguya asked. She raised her hand to block a punch to her face.

"Never!" Cirno shouted. "I wanna keep my combo!"

"... Okay," Kaguya said.

And punched the fairy in the chest.

Cirno blew away, destroying some bamboo in the process. Her body stopped after a few seconds and got buried by that bamboo in her way. Kaguya followed the path and grabbed her arm. She pulled the fairy up. Her limbs were still intact. Mokou wouldn't be mad.

"Not dead?" Kaguya asked and shook her. The fairy coughed. "Not dead."

Cirno managed to shrug off and fly back a few meters. "I said I don't wanna die!"

"Sure, sure, the long-lived fairy." Kaguya glanced at the moon. This fairy was an early companion. Or servant. "You've had countless resurrections already, so why bother?"

Cirno blinked. "Have I?"

"Yeah." By my hands. Kaguya rubbed her chin. "You can't remember any?"

Cirno frowned. "From how long?"

"Hundred years back." Kaguya could remember killing the fairy over and over again, because why not? That fairy always spawns out of the lake. It was a fun thing to do when Mokou was not there. She didn't know fairies would lose memory after each death.

But now that she thought about it, it only made sense. Lowly creatures that were lower than humans wouldn't be able to keep their memory intact more than a few decades.

"So," Cirno said. "I'm quite old!"

"Of course you are. Ice exists from way back, as well as the lake." To be honest, Kaguya almost felt guilty that she might be the main reason this fairy had lost so much memory. Who knows, she could have been a smarter fairy who had witnessed history since ancient times.

But again, this fairy provoked her in the first place, not knowing her place. When she had lost to the lunatic princess, it sealed her fate.

"That's enough training for today," Kaguya said. "Come in and have some tea?"

Cirno's eyes lit up.

Kaguya entered her house and started making tea. Cirno looked around in awe. The rabbits eyed her but they knew not to bother a guest.

Cirno started exploring the house. The little things she did when she walked around, like turning her head right away when there was a corner, or sitting down at the table in a swift manner, were a nice surprise. It made Kaguya felt like this fairy might still have the faintest memory of this place.

Kaguya served tea. Cirno drank the hot tea and winced. She never enjoys hot tea but she kept drinking it.

"Kaguya," Cirno said.

"Yes?"

"Can I keep coming here?"

It was an innocent question. "Like this place, huh?"

Cirno sipped the tea. "It made me feel at home."

Kaguya looked at her. An ice fairy, just like the lunatic princess, was a creature given immortality. Though she couldn't have survived without the Earth, as long as there was Gensokyo, she was immortal.

And for all immortals, a place like home was something that should be cherished.

"Of course you can," Kaguya said. "Come here anytime. Eientei will always welcome you."