Timi's Heart

[dramatispersonae]

*you find yourselves crowded together on a rock ledge in the middle of a dense forest, partway up a mountain. there is snow on the scattered boulders and pines around you; it is bitterly cold. the sky is filled with steely clouds, and hard wind gusts at intervals, threatening to knock you over.

on another ledge further up, if you care to climb to it, is a mass of sticks and twigs--an old, gigantic nest. beyond that, a stretch of bare rock leads up to the distant mountain peak.

there are also small pawprints threading a precarious, narrow trail downward, through the snowed-in trees.*

Comments

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[And the invisibeast just got Kite.]

—Valiant!

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

--?!

No! Fuck!

[I GUESS. I WILL JUST TRY TO CLAW MY WAY BACK UP OH NO]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*...it's dropping him back in the nest with you.*

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

[I'M DUMPED TO THE NEST TOO, covered in blood

ow ow my shoulders]

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Grabs him!]

Wait! I don't think it's trying to hurt us. It could've dropped us, but it brought us back here. It's trying to do something else.

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

What? What -- it just dropped him...

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

[fdgj s-standing up]

A-Are you guys okay?

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Holding shoulder gingerly with burnt hand. Also, has fair bit of blood on him.]

Yeah... we can't go that way.

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

. . . What now. . .

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[T-Trying to get back to his feet.]

I guess down...

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

M-Maybe, or there's another way.

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

Another way?

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

W-wait, you idiot! You're hurt real bad! [taking off his jacket and going to Zero to CHECK HIS WOUNDS]

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

I felt something when we were climbing, like a lot of fear. And that thing was trying to keep us away from going up, but it didn't hurt us more than it had to. Maybe there's a way for it to let us pass?

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Letting Rin do his checking since someone is OBVIOUSLY NOT HUMAN and looking at Kite.]

... What does Lark usually do when she's afraid? To face her fear.

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

[. . . finally catching on the fact Zero is hurt]

S-She hides, I think. Um, you sure you can continue?

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

Dude! Why do we still wanna go up! Forget it, let's just go down!

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

You got grabbed too. It's fine.

[Well, maybe less fine since Zero did a whole lot more moving during that whole grabbing thing.]

Hiding won't work.

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

Um, okay.

And no, it won't. Cyclone is right, maybe we should just go down.

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

... All right.

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[GAWD

rips his jacket and ties it tight around Zero's dumb shoulders like he saw someone do once]

What d'you even think is up there that's so important?

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Glances at him and then shakes his head.]

I wasn't sure. I just know that sometimes important things are harder to reach.

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

[waiting, approving of what Rin is doing 8(]

And Lark tends to react with fear when it comes to her memories and things like that.

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

... If somethin' that scary is keeping us from going up more, I bet it's protectin' us. Or it just wants us to keep out.

[once that is DONE rubs at his arms, reshouldering his sword]

So let's go down!

Re: [pick your path]

[highasakite]

But we hurt it.

[OKAY GOING DOWN THIS TIME]