Trowa and Lil - Backdated to Oct 2
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ax_mainLil takes a walk that gets briefly interrupted by a very strange boy.
The woods here were very different from the ones at home. They were lush and tame woods in contrast to the scrubby, prickly forest of tamarack and pine around Yellowknife. Right now, it didn't matter to Lil. What mattered was that the branches blocked out the sight of buildings just beyond and the leaves buffered the sounds coming from the mansion so that she could have a little bit of time alone here without the next surprise popping out from behind some corner or being announced from an auditorium stage.
She could have a bit of time to breath.
"Are you trying to get lost?"
The toneless voice came from above her head, the speaker hidden by the greenery and branches.
"Maybe," she yelled up. Of course there'd be someone out here. Every fucking corner of this property seemed to have someone on it. "Don't think it could happen out here though."
"It wouldn't be hard at all. Just keep walking." Movement resolved itself into the shape of a tall, skinny boy, crouched among the branches.
Lil shifted her gaze from the boy to the woods ahead. "They're that deep?"
"Not so much if you're paying attention. I don't think you are." He unfolded himself and paced to the end of his branch as if it were flat ground.
"Jesus Christ. Is this what you do? Sit in the trees out here, bugging people who walk by? Is that your thing?"
The boy shrugged. "It was a warning. But do as you like."
"What about you?" Lil asked, folding her arms across her chest. "Givin' me warnings when you're walking up on tree branches."
Green eyes regarded her from beneath an overhang of spiky, brown bangs. "My powers give me a heightened sense of balance. I'm in no danger of falling." He leapt lightly from his perch, caught himself on another branch on the way down, then let go and landed lightly off to Lil's six.
A heightened sense of balance didn't sound like much, but his acrobatics were impressive. "Okay, I believe you."
The boy only nodded and, after a moment, headed deeper into the woods.
Lil briefly thought about following, but she'd come out here for some solitude, and he'd just given her that.
The woods here were very different from the ones at home. They were lush and tame woods in contrast to the scrubby, prickly forest of tamarack and pine around Yellowknife. Right now, it didn't matter to Lil. What mattered was that the branches blocked out the sight of buildings just beyond and the leaves buffered the sounds coming from the mansion so that she could have a little bit of time alone here without the next surprise popping out from behind some corner or being announced from an auditorium stage.
She could have a bit of time to breath.
"Are you trying to get lost?"
The toneless voice came from above her head, the speaker hidden by the greenery and branches.
"Maybe," she yelled up. Of course there'd be someone out here. Every fucking corner of this property seemed to have someone on it. "Don't think it could happen out here though."
"It wouldn't be hard at all. Just keep walking." Movement resolved itself into the shape of a tall, skinny boy, crouched among the branches.
Lil shifted her gaze from the boy to the woods ahead. "They're that deep?"
"Not so much if you're paying attention. I don't think you are." He unfolded himself and paced to the end of his branch as if it were flat ground.
"Jesus Christ. Is this what you do? Sit in the trees out here, bugging people who walk by? Is that your thing?"
The boy shrugged. "It was a warning. But do as you like."
"What about you?" Lil asked, folding her arms across her chest. "Givin' me warnings when you're walking up on tree branches."
Green eyes regarded her from beneath an overhang of spiky, brown bangs. "My powers give me a heightened sense of balance. I'm in no danger of falling." He leapt lightly from his perch, caught himself on another branch on the way down, then let go and landed lightly off to Lil's six.
A heightened sense of balance didn't sound like much, but his acrobatics were impressive. "Okay, I believe you."
The boy only nodded and, after a moment, headed deeper into the woods.
Lil briefly thought about following, but she'd come out here for some solitude, and he'd just given her that.
