If winter lasts forever here I'm filing a formal complaint with Aslan. [ And then, before Rey can even ask, Cisco waves a dismissive hand and explains: ] Pop culture reference.

[ That's the system the two of them have worked out, now. There's no way for Cisco to weed out all the references in his speech patterns, and trying to do so much made talking feel stilted and weird for him. So he just says what he wants, now, and immediately tells Rey when it's a reference so she doesn't get confused.

It makes him smile, hearing the awed way Rey talks about Takodana. Sometimes it really hits Cisco, how much Rey had grown up without. Family. Comfort. Friends. But also things like forests. His voice is soft as he says: ]

You would love Earth. It's got deserts, like Jakku, but also forests millions of species of plants and animals. There are cities but also huge rainforests and mountains. Some places are really dry and others it just snows and snows and snows.

[ At some point Cisco had stopped rolling the snowman's head, and his smile takes on a certain sadness. He'd managed to make him homesick, without really meaning to. ]