Closed Annoying Big "Brothers" (Ximal)

[Ana Sol Starris]

Gripping the area that was her chest with a shaky hand, breathing in deeply, and then out slowly as she tried to will the rapid beating against her sternum to chill out. Sniffling, as her body would run cold with sweat, she wasn't sure if she could do another full on sprint and be able to breathe afterwards, let alone climb that petching wall with nothing but her feet. Ximal's voice perked up from above her, offering advice, and then some, but she wasn't sure she wanted to try and smash her face into a wall or something. What if she jumped at the wrong time and then slipped, and fell, for a third time, and possibly a fourth, fifth, what if she continued to fail? Her eyes followed upwards to look at the darkly shadowed figure blocking the sunlight, just laying there, she assumed by how the angle of his presence displayed itself. His voice goading her on with mere words, and tone of voice. "Shuddup!" Ana snapped at him, feeling dizzy as she pulled herself up again "failure is not an option.." she muttered, more so to herself than to Ximal. By theory what Ximal was saying should have worked, but did he take into account that she wasn't particuarly the strongest person there? Just a few rapid sprints, in quick succession had taken her breath away; back in Sunberth she might have had a little more stamina in the concerns of running due to having to do it all the time. Moving to the Spires however made it somewhat impossible to get a good run going with all those nasty things on the ground that could trip someone, catch the toe of a boot, and snap the ankle with the momentum of the sprint- not something she had wanted to do so high above the ground. She had grown soft in the regards of having to constantly run, and it was obvious it had taken its toll out on her over the last few seasons, her eyes fell, squinting at the ground. Petch. Ambling away to begin the process of repeated failure again, she stared at the wall before her, scrutinized it and then followed the distance it was away from her. Slowing down isn't helping me... I got that the last few trys, but if I don't jump at the right time I'll just end up smashing into that petching wall.. and then what? Rubbing her hands together slowly, thoughtfully, inhaling and exhaling out a sigh, she began to roll her shoulders and stretch her neck. Falling the first time hurt.. made my neck sore, and now I'm all tensed up again.. Better to take this next attempt slow, and then speed up as I get closer. Clasping her hands together, she rubbed into her knuckle joints, and then the base rotating area of her thumb and flicked her hands away to her sides as if to say 'bring it- wall.' Backing up slowly by five paces. When she felt ready she started out with a walk, which slowly turned into a jog, her arms bending, and then swinging back and forth with the rhythem of her gait. That then turned into a full run half way to the wall, which then became a sprint, her heart beating in her chest in tune with her footfalls until finally she would bend a knee, jump with the foot still on the ground, and let the other foot press into the wall as she would push up with her knee and attempt to propel herself upwards to Ximal. Everything went slow, but became decidedly detailed in the direction she was heading, her envirement blurred around her and all she had eyes for were Ximal. Come on! GO! Ana internally screamed as her arm stretched to reach for Ximal's waiting hand, not even brushing his fingertips before she hurtled back to the ground. NO!! PETCH!! Time was a very fickle thing, it had slowed down just as adrenaline would rush through a viewers bloodstream, and the suspense was getting good. Then time would surprise that person, catching them off gaurd, by returning to normal, making everything seem so much faster than everything really was. That was exactly what had happened to Ana just then. 'PETCH!' She mouthed out her last internally thought word, flailing to get his hand but failing as she would land on the ground for a third time, her body crumpling into the ground as her feet would touch base. Pain was also a fussy and rather sadistic mistress, at times it could dissapear, and other times it enjoyed covering your body in every nasty thing it could. To be more precise, a sting had begun in Ana's knees, starting from her feet, and travelling upwards. Hissing out multiple swear words, Ana twitched, and rolled a bit on the ground holding one of her two knees.

[Ximal]

Xi watched ana back up and try this out again this time taking his advice and watching her take a few more steps back and speed up running now at the wall at full pace, taking it slow at first and then building up speed...But that wasn't how she was supposed to do it. She was goinf to fail again but this time Xi didn't realize how badly she was dgoing to fail until it happened. She reached the wall and sprang up off of it but didn;t jumpt off trying to reach the other wall for a forwards momentum and heightened leap. No she tried to jump straight up and catch his hand. Though he swung down olding himself on with his left hand and reaching for hers with his right.Even though he'd swung a good portion of his body off of the roof top he could see that she was going to miss and fall a long way. Xi slipped his hand down and tried to catch her but no he'd missed. He'd missed. Xi then swung his body entirely off of the roof top before dropping down onto the ground his thighs screamed at him from the impact but were fine as he'd crouched on landing to minimize the damage. Behind him though ana was in pain, clutching one of her knees to her chest, and Xi really couldn't blame her. Before she could argue he'd scooped her up and started to ask her swiftly. "How bad is the pain in your knee? Can you walk?" actually that was kind of a redundant statement since he'd already whisked her up and off of the ground before asking it and he'd begun to carry her, taking her towards the infirmary, whether she wanted to or not she was getting her leg checked out. It may have been just a bad sprain, or it could be broken. Xi shook his heat at the worst possibility. As they walked Xi tried to tell her where she want wrong. "You only bounced off of one wall, your supposed to bounce off multiple ones if your smaller, it keeps your speed up and lets you climb easier. Still I'm impressed with you for trying." Xio smirked and gave her a reassuring look. This was his fault and he knew it. He'd missed her fingers but he'd attempted and failed.

[Ana Sol Starris]

Pain stinged in her feet, crawling up both her legs but more so from the foot she had landed directly on first. She must have landed on it wrong, but she was happy to know that it could still be moved about by the ankle, with a slight drawback of more pain wafting through the bones. Ana sucked in the air, leaning her head back and groaning to keep from crying out right, exhaling, she pulled her head back into her chest, rocking her body back and forth, it seemed to help distract her from the real problem at hand. Ximal had jumped down after her, an she was afraid he would crush her, so she cringed, and shut her eyes expecting the immediate end of Ana Sol Starris. THUD! And then there was silence. Ana peeked an eye open at where Ximal could have landed, and it definitely wasnt anywheres near her head, she relaxed. Relief washed over her and brought her attention away from her foot for a chime, before Ximal went and picked her up. "Hey! Hey! Eeeeasy..." Ana hissed, biting her lip to refrain from cussing, taking another deep breath before continuing "I'm fine...Just landed wrong...Is all... I can walk, if you'd let me try." Looking up at him, she was very well aware on their position and she felt absolutely ridiculous being carried like the way she was being carried. Sighing, she let a hand rub a temple slowly, listening to him as he explained where she had gone wrong. "Right, so next time I have to jump on the second wall.. Hey.. Thats pretty smart y'know. D'ya think I'd be able to climb into peoples windows after this? Ahem...To do, you know what I mean." Ana let the hand slide to rub her jaw, glancing down to the ground now and finding that.. Ximal was a very tall person, how did he go into buildings and get past doors? Was all she could wonder at his height. "May I be put down?" Ana asked. If he did put her down, she would tense up in pain the moment the problematic foot touched the ground.

[Ximal]

She'd obviously just landed wrong that was a very blatant and obvious point, still Xi took a deep breath and soldiered onwards. Still she wanted to try and walk Xi weighed up the options in his head slowly, taking his time to come to a definite decision. "Alright, you can try to walk, if it's too painful thought tell me and i'll whisk you back up." Xi offered a small reassuring smile as he loosed his grip on her and tried to set er down on the ground gently. taking it easy because after all the fist lift had been done in haste and worry but with not nearly as much care as he was giving now. Xi sighed though smirking as she spoke about learning about how to do what he'd been trying to teach her. It was obvious she was the same little trouble maker he'd semi adopted in the spires. He half wanted to thump her, or messing up but still wanted to make sure she was alright. "Yes miss problematic, if you can master that, or at least learn it you can climb in to "inspect" things. Also, i's not just bouncing off of one, if you keep the momentum going you can go up as many as you need to to reach the top of whatever your climbing. The moment Xi put her down though she went rigid more than likely from pain Xi without thinking hoisted her back up and onto his shoulders so her leg could hang down and not have any pressure on it. She could also hold onto his head for balance and he could make sure she didn't get bumped accidentally. "Right well i just put ya down adn you froze up like a plank so i'm going to take you to the damned infirmary and this time no arguments. That was a bad fall, and at a dodgy angle so i'm pretty sire you've sprained something as there's no visible damage. Xi held onto her thighs lightly before making sure she had hold, taking a half second to let her get a good grip he took off running. More sprinting than anything else but still he wanted to get there quickly.

[Ana Sol Starris]

Sighing at her predicament, Ana did not protest when Ximal lifted her up to his shoulders and set her on them. No arguing really meant 'no arguing' that was for certain, and especially with him, but she was intrigued by how he scaled walls with just his feet. She really wanted to learn how to do that, and she felt as if she had been close successfully doing so. Victory was within her reach, but lack of skill kept yanking it away from her grabs for it, it was an aggravating feeling. Holding onto his head with a hand, Ana got comfortable on Ximal's shoulders and pouted. "How can you tell theres no visible damage if you didn't take my boot off to look at it?" Ana questioned, looking down at him "not that I want you to try, just curious- wah!" Her body swayed backwards with his sudden sprinting, making her hands flail to get better grip of his head to stay balanced on his shoulders. She pulled herself forwards with his quick movements, hunching her shoulders until finally her upper body was leaning forwards over his head. Ana had to admit it, the wind blowing past her face felt amazing, making her clothes and hair whip in the air backwards. Then it occurred to her, if they were going back to the Celestial Sqaure to get into the Infirmary, and the Hostel was in the Sqaure as well, that would end the adventure and their current exploration of the city! "Woah-woah! Hey Ximal, what are we going to do after the infirmary bit?" Ana asked him, tapping his head lightly with a finger. They weren't far away from getting to the large forboding building of doctors and healers. Not that Ana was scared of them or anything.