NIKI
Along one of the many bridges connecting the Bodega's floating market stalls, a crutch - dark wood, polished with use and with a small moth carved near the top - sits propped against the wooden rails. Someone has been kind enough to notice it clattered untidily across the middle of the bridge, moving it out of the way where no one can trip. If they had seen fit to move just a little further, of course, they might have also spotted its owner down on the mossy banks of the river. Alas, that luck is not Niki's today.
He doesn't mind so much currently; it had been a mix of curiosity and an oversight on his part that had caused his fall (and isn't there a platitude about that involving cats?), and he has gotten what he wanted out of it, even if he's also currently stuck on the rocks with his crutch just ever so slightly out of reach. But a small bird hops and flutters about him, heedless of the fact that it has a broken wing and that its tiny skull is half on display. It doesn't seem bothered by it at all, and so neither is Niki.
The water is becoming a small problem, though; as the morning wanes on, the river inevitably begins to rise, and he's forced to prepare for a display of some very unconventional acrobatics to get back onto the bridge.
He doesn't mind so much currently; it had been a mix of curiosity and an oversight on his part that had caused his fall (and isn't there a platitude about that involving cats?), and he has gotten what he wanted out of it, even if he's also currently stuck on the rocks with his crutch just ever so slightly out of reach. But a small bird hops and flutters about him, heedless of the fact that it has a broken wing and that its tiny skull is half on display. It doesn't seem bothered by it at all, and so neither is Niki.
The water is becoming a small problem, though; as the morning wanes on, the river inevitably begins to rise, and he's forced to prepare for a display of some very unconventional acrobatics to get back onto the bridge.
my body's on the line now; I can't fight this time now
I can feel the light shine on my face
I can feel the light shine on my face
