Good Times

ALISTAIR Alistair leapt. The rush of air pushed through his body as his eyes shut. The roar and rush of the fall wrapping all his senses. There was a calm to this. As if he knew he'd be ok. The initial hesitation left behind up on the bridge. To survive something like this...that would be something he'd always remember. So why waste it closing his eyes. Suddenly his eyes shot open as the fog below rapidly approached. He pressed his body like a missle to pick up speed and screamed with the exhilaration of it all as he shot into the unknown below. He couldn't tell how close he was to the end, just that the velocity begun to slow down when in the fog. He could feel a change in positioning just before his feet gradually touched the ground. It was wet, like a shallow creak which at one time might have been mighty. Instead the sounds of the trickling water appeared calm. His eyes focusing from the fall, surveyed the area to see it appear rather barren and plain. Mostly stone and weathered rocks with a pathway leading up along the side. This was all fine and good until Alistair realized what he had done and glanced up. Suddenly...He began to laugh. Laugh complete and full til it pained his muscles from laughing as hard and as long as he had. He collapsed onto the ground, onto his rear as his clothes sprawled on the floor, and simply...laughed... Alistair, who had taken every chance to be safe and protected...leapt off a bridge for the purpose of simply proving he was a man of his word. Blind faith...and it was rewarded. Indeed all he could do, was laugh to his heart's content. Rexanna

RexannA maybe they'd forgotten, when they failed to see the cracks. Either she was being ridiculously stupid, or they’d survive this. The last words he said to her repeated in her mind over and over as she clamped her eyes shut and leapt from the bridge. “Do you want to live forever?” The thought causing her stomach to churn. “No,” she thought, “but I don’t want it over this soon.” As the wind picked up, and she free fell, a small scream slipped from her lips before the air whooshed it out of her – to where she didn’t think she could scream again or even catch her own breath. Her stomach jumped into her lungs, her heart frantically beating as she was certain both she and Alistair would be splattered on the ground. But she kept falling, tumbling down as she fought to regain control of her slim body – her hair tangling up above her as she fell, her clothes billowing in odd places and flattening in others. When she finally regained control of herself, she could nearly see the bottom. Her eyes clamped shut yet again, fearful to watch herself splatter herself across the rocky stones at the bottom, her teeth clamping on her bottom lip enough to draw blood. Suddenly, she slowed, her feet finding their way onto the ground before her as she was virtually unharmed. She could feel the blood beginning to drip from her lip onto her chin, and she heard Alistair not too far away laughing in what seemed like hysterics. Sapphire eyes slipped open, scanning the grey misty area around to see where the man had gone, to find him laying on the ground and continuing to laugh. “You buffoon!” She chided, still not quite believing that they had both made it. Her terror made her legs a bit weak and shaky, but she did her best to run over to the naked man. “You are an idiot, Alistair.” She said, brows furrowing as she tried to be angry at him. But one look at him, that laugh that lit up his face, she couldn’t help but to breathlessly laugh, finding her legs giving out beneath her as she tumbled to the ground next to him. She landed on her rear as well, running a hand through her hair, forgetting about the blood on her chin that continued to drip down slowly as she shook her head. “We’re both idiots.” She amended with another breathless laugh. She turned to Alistair and tried to shove his shoulder as she focused on him. “He didn’t actually tell us to jump!” She said with another laugh, suddenly overcome as the giggles racked her body, her shoulders hunching slightly as she tried to calm down, but she too had grown hysterical. “Good gods.” She laughed and tried to catch her breath again, grinning from ear to ear as a small line of crimson continued to slip from her bottom lip. that a star's light shines the brightest, when it's starting to collapse.

coding

ALISTAIR As he gathered himself, Alistair looked off to the side to see that Rexanna had followed. He stopped laughing briefly, though a smile still etched on his face as he leaned back onto his elbows when she collapsed next to him. His eyes glanced up at the fog above as he laid back completely. "You could've cursed me from the bridge...you jumped after me?" Alistair laughed quietly. He didn't push the point, he simply folded his hands behind his head with a side-eye glance to Rex as if to say 'you're a beautiful fool' though he approved the ridiculousness of the gesture. It was then he noticed the blood trickling down her chin and leaned over, gently brushing the blood from her chin. His smile fading into a look of concern for only a moment. He looked over the blood on his thumb and licked it off. "You ok?" He asked, fingers curling on her cheek as he examined her lip to make sure it wasn't bleeding. The care displayed sincere as he smiled. "I don't know what came over me. Was a very foolish thing I did. Was very foolish of you to follow..." Thumb grazed her lip as he leaned down and kissed her. "Thank you." Hand slid and ran along the side of Rex's leg before sitting up. Where he would glance around as he began getting dressed. "Suppose we should be making our way up hm?" He turned down to his side where she law and winked. "There's something I want to show you..."

The kappa was enjoying a day of swimming and minding its own business, until two human-like creatures fell through its atmosphere entirely ruining the delicate dance it had been performing. Their cries were buoyant and joy-filled, and yet the creature was horrified and immediately put on the defensive. No one had come down here in years, and the solitary creature had found that it rather liked being left alone. Timid and mild though it normally was, as Rex and Alistair’s voices carried upwards through the canyon, the creature’s gaze was immediately pulled towards the secret location of its cave, and all the treasures that lay within. Swimming through the mistm the kappa opened its beak and screeched its disapproval, immediately flying/swimming its way from the skies towards Rexanna and Alistair. As it did so, it shot a frigid jet of water towards them, before swiftly rising back up and hiding in the mists again, hoping this action would be enough to force the humans to leave.

RexannA maybe they'd forgotten, when they failed to see the cracks. His first words to her when she landed were with a laugh. She playfully glared in his direction as she tried to hide a grin. “For the record, I did curse you from the bridge. I just wanted to make sure you heard me.” She said, acknowledging that yes, she did jump after him and that the fact they both were idiots and fools but she laughed regardless. They had made it, the creature spoke true, and she was stunned that they had; likely still a bit in shock of the whole ordeal. Alistair moved to her with concern, however, and Rex began to realize something had happened. Her tongue ran along her lip and the metallic taste surprised her at first. As he asked her if she was okay, she nodded, shrugging her shoulders slightly to him with a small smile. “Don’t like heights.” Her voice was soft, but she used her arm to wipe the rest of the blood that had trickled down her chin in an effort to clean up a bit. Alistair continued to speak, however, and she nodded – pinning him with another entertaining glare. “It was. Perhaps we make each other too brazen.” She said with a small laugh, pausing only as he kissed her. He stood up then and began to dress himself while she still remained sitting on the ground. As Alistair asked if they should make their way up, she opened her mouth to agree with him and ask about what it might be that he wanted to show her. Before she could, however, there was a shrill screech in the air and a strange sound of water of all things. It cascaded down toward them and Rex flew up an arm to try and block the jet of water from the creature that had attacked. She was drenched now, but luckily unharmed aside from a few scratches as she leaped to her feet. “What was that?” She exclaimed, eyes squinting against the mist for the shape of that creature, whatever kind of thing it was. The screech reminded her of a bird, but what kind of bird could shoot water like that? She looked to Alistair, exasperated and surprised, yet eager to try and look for it. Brazen indeed. that a star's light shines the brightest, when it's starting to collapse.

coding

ALISTAIR "Perhaps..." Alistair muttered under his breath with as he softly grinned, his back to Rexanna as he surveyed the land stone grounds ahead, searching the path to ascend when the cries of a bird were heard. Quickly he turned, just in time to get taken down by a stream of frigid water. The momentum making his body roll onto his back. As he scrambled back to his feet, wiping his eyes clear, Alistair squinted toward Rexanna before glancing upward. "No idea..." Brazen, surely. As he looked back toward Rex he recognized a look of curiosity that was difficult to deny how contagious it was. "Only one way to found out I suppose." He would make his way over, taking Rex's hand as he eased her slowly behind him. He had hunted for years, birds of many species had fell by his arrows plenty of times...but this was a new world, new species. Not everything could be handled like it was in the old world. He thought to grab a stone, and hurl it at the beast the moment he saw it...but instead he grew curious. He began to whistle, mimicking the sound of birds of all variations in the hopes it would pick up one of the tunes. Had the bird connected to the call, and had approached the two, he would find Alistair with one hand up, exposing he wasn't there to harm with the hopes it would disarm the creatures territorial concerns.