She saw that expression and wasn't so naive as to not understand what it meant. So an explanation was due. Eirika smiled a bit bashfully, "I have never seen one before. I know of what you speak, but upon my arrival here, it was the first I'd crossed paths with. Until you said just now, I was unaware it had a name."

So she tried on the alias for size. "Snowman." Then she motioned to space beside the girl and tilted her head, as if a quiet way of asking permission to join her. "And what does a snowman do?"