William and James knocked on the large ice crusted, freezing metal doors. There was something wrong. They should've known that they would have been there, on the ice planet. Something about that place reminded William about some metal men…
"Mendos…" James muttered as he began to breathe into his hands snapping William out of his daydream.
"Why does that name sound familiar?" He asked his twin although he could not reply. There was no time. Just as William opened his mouth the large doors in front of them began to creak into motion. Opening frustratingly slowly. The two stumbled inside wishing that they had brought something to protect themselves from the cold of outside.
"You should've brought something warmer. You know how cold it is." Came a harsh, rasping voice from by the brother's feet. They looked down and smiled at the figure, each raising their left hand in a greeting. The figure did the same then bowed and began to shuffle away down an equally cold and frozen corridor. James watched the figure with interest, it was his first time of visiting Mendos and they could all tell. He watched the figure as it slid down the icy corridor on large, orange webbed feet. The twin smiled, it looked human but something about it was…bird like. The person didn't seem to have a gender although James was happier to think it was male. It was wearing a black and white suit similar to the ones he and William were wearing, but it was hard to tell that they were separate from the figure's skin. The figure was very short, barely coming up to James's hip and had very flat, orange feet and very flat hands.
"This way, hurry up!" The figure rasped breaking into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
"Something funny?" James snapped, the figure had been laughing at the way William had been walking, the floors were made of ice like everything else causing the twin to slip and slide down the hall, not walk like the little person could easily do.
Every time he visited Mendos William could not help but feel awed at the work these people could do with ice. Sculpting it into amazing shapes including houses. And if they chose then these places could become very warm. Like a better version of an igloo. And it was very hard to walk properly on ice.
"He will see you now." It rasped bowing then quickly sliding away leaving the two at an ornately decorated door again made out of ice.
"This place is amazing." William gasped while they waited for the people on the other side of the door to be ready for them.
"You're the one that has been here before."
Or at least, that is what he had told me. James thought bitterly, William had been acting differently lately, something that was barely noticeable but annoyed him all the same.