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Multicultural Fair! [The Gym - After Classes]

The benefit of doing something like this for the second time meant that Joan and Turtle had a much easier time of setting things up since they knew what worked and what didn't.

Turtle had, once again, provided decorations from Turtle & Canary. There was the requisite refreshment table, though it was primarily there to provide beverages, since most of the booths featured culturally appropriate food.

After set up was complete, Joan and Turtle sat down to catch up while they waited for the fair to begin.

[~~wait for the ocd or Turtle will kick you in the shin~~ OCD up! No shins were harmed in the making of this post!]

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"So the Realm of Light is the weakest? Maybe it's warm here because it exists in all three realms? Like, there's magical energy from three places that keep it warm?"

"Well, the Winds are the psychic roadways throught the Darkness," Karla explained ~~not-so~~ helpfully. "The current thought is that since the Runs are where they converge, the extra energy is released at heat. The Blood Run had the light Winds: White through Opal, and the Khaldheron has the dark: Opal through Black."

Leda wasn't sure that was going to stay straight in her head, but that was okay. "So, what do we do?"

"You trust me, right?" Karla asked, unable to keep a wicked grin from her face.

[By that, I mean okay to mod a tiny bit?]

"I trust you." Weird how that wicked grin was encouraging.

[Go for it.]

"Then we do...this," Karla said, grabbing Leda's hand and diving into the canyon.

Free fall. Hawk fall. They seemed almost to drift for a moment on the wind, before gravity sent then plummeting downward. She reveled in the speed, the adrenaline pumping through her veins. Ice walls sped up to meet them until Karla opened her wings, caught the White thread and took off down the Blood Run. Leda, her body caught by the memory, did the same, taking to the air as if she'd been born to it.

The initial scream was one of slight terror, if not surprise. But it quickly turned into one of exhilaration as she remembered that she was not going to die.

"Waaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooo!"

Edited 2009-09-14 04:41 (UTC)

They danced on the Winds, twirlung, spinning, dropping from one Wind and catching another. Karla lead the dance, probing ahead to untangle the Winds and choose the threads that would keep them relatively safe in the center of the canyon. Leda could probably feel when they switch Winds--the very air itself would change, sudden currents would buffet them, causing then to gain or lose altitude, or skim across the surface of the ice walls, so close their breaths turned to mist. And the darker the Wind, the more wild the power, the harder to tame the air and stay aloft.

The greater the exhilaration, too.

Now Leda was laughing, and holding tightly to her frien's hand. She couldn't tell every time they changed winds, but she got a sense of it many times. "I never knew you could fly!"

"You've never seen me at school?" Karla asked, laughing giddily. "I have wings of my own in my dorm!"

They swooped through another quarter mile of the Run; darting around large protrusions of ice, diving down almost to the bottom just to catch an air current and get flung upwards again. Leda seemed to becoming acclimated to the experience, which meant that it was time for Karla to change things up again.

"You're turn!" she shouted, letting go of Leda's hand. "This Wind goes steady for a bit. You lead!" She pointed in the distance, where a large ice wall thrust up out of the ground to meet them. "Till there. Go!"

"Wha-I don't have wings! Do I have wings?"

"Oh, didn't I mention?" Karla giggled, pointing towards Leda's back. "You didn't think I was carrying you through this whole thing, did you? You've been flying since we jumped!"

Leda craned her neck to see, which may have been a mistake. ~~What kind of wings are we talking? Bird wings? Insect wings? Cause the latter would be really funny for an Elf to have.~~

Unlike the wings Karla had back in Fandom, constructed from metal and fabric and Craft, these were real wings of bone and muscle and sinew. These were large, black, and membranous, like bat-wings. "These are the wings of an Eyrien warrior," Karla explained. "They're a race of people here in Kaeleer. They make their home in the mountains of Askavi."

[sorry!]

"Kick ass." Leda murmured, and straightened. "Okay then, which way did you say Ray?"

Karla pointed towards the ice wall. "That way," she said. "It's just a memory," Karla reminded her, flying at Leda's side. "If we crash, we'll just wake back up. Besides, are you going to be beaten by a little bit of flying and some ice?"

She veered to the left in order to avoid an ice spike, then did a few lazy backflips in the air. "You can do this, easy."

"I might need to practice some more before I can do the flips, Chip." she grinned, but she did manage some nice swooping maneuvers.

You don't have to flip," Karla said. "You just have to fly and not hit anything. Though, if you really wanted to, you could flip. That body knows how, even if you don't. But it isn't necessary. You're having fun aren't you?"

She watched Leda swoop a few times and cheered. "Good job!"

The far well kept zooming closer and as it did, the Winds got rougher and more turbulent. "You're doing very well," she called, "but don't let your guard down now!"

"Why start now?" Leda smirked. She arched her back, and tilted in accordance with the directions of the winds. Oddly she compared it to keeping an umbrella intact on a windy rainy day.

Even someone with the borrowed stamina and reserves of an Eyrien warrior got tired, though, and started to slow down. This was the trickest part of the Run; as the body's energies ebbed, the power of the Winds increased. A current grabbed them, and tried to spin them out. Karla grabbed onto Leda's hand and pulled her close, holding tightly as they glided through the middle of two closely-positioned jagged peaks.

"Here we goooo!" She yelled to be heard over the rushing wind. An updraft sent them spiraling up into the sky and then a vicious crosswind sent them hurtling towards the wall. "Reeeeady..." she said, "...and break!" She let go of Leda's hands, giving her a quick push with Craft, so they could both get out of the current before smashing into the wall.

"Oh holy shit!" For a minute there, Leda wondered if she was going to lose it, but at the last moment she caught on, and moved the way she needed to.

The ice wall was so close now, looming until it was the only thing in her vision. Karla angled upward, getting closer and closer to slamming into the mountain, waiting until the last second before breaking free of the Winds and rising up and over the edge. She landed on the top, panting, but grinning at the same time.

"You can do it!" she called over the wall at Leda. "Just a little bit more and you'll be up top. Promise!" She couldn't tell if her expression was one of joy or terror.

To be safe, she readied a Sapphire net to catch her if she needed it. They weren't quite done yet.

It was both actually. Screaming wordlessly, Leda cleared the edge, just barely, and somehow managed to collapse gracefully in front of Karla.

Karla smiled approvingly at Leda's grace, even as she collapsed.

"You should try the Khaldheron," Karla smirked. "That Run makes this one look like a game for children. Especially in Hell."

"...And we're not done yet!" she said. "We're heading down there." She pointed at the other side of the ice wall. What appeared to be a giant slide had been cut into the side of it and there, in the distance, was a small campfire. To the side of them were long, flat sheets of ice. "Ready to ride one down?"

"I think I should practice this one a few times before I try anything harder." Leda said, once she got her breath back. Who knew flying would be so much exercise? Having collected herself, she rose and nodded. "Ready."

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