Dig it. The Brucolac doesn't believe he means shovel snow. Having spent most of his long life travelling, however, he has rather an ear for and an appreciation for strange ways of putting things. Dig it. Appreciate it, does he mean? Charming. Nice cadence to it. Perhaps he'll start using it himself.

"Oh? I've still no idea what the hell you can do. Make the ice upsettingly self-aware?"