clearing her head.

Kira slipped slowly out of the large open window of her room in the local Inn. The clock read around five fifteen AM, and she knew she should be asleep especially considering the situation she'd been in, however her mind ran and as her eyes closed the dream came to her once more. She had woken up in tears clutching her sheets ans screaming out into the open air of her room. she was a nervous wreck. As her body slid through the opening she reached her hands one after the other around the frame to catch onto the outside ledge, pulling herself to her feet to stand atop the window. She hooked her knee around the window frame for support, reaching upward and searching for something. Her fingertips gripped a bit of stone that jutted out just a little past the others and the moment she felt it she put pressure on the place, sliding her other hand around to grip it also. Her fingertips wrapped around the stone, the muscles of her bisceps twitching as they were called to action. She suspended herset from the window, her feet sliding out of the window to hang below her for a moment. She shifted her hand position once to make sure she could support her full weight with one hand and then reached up with her left to search for the edge of the roof above. Her fingers slid across cool stone, seeming to trace the grooves one by one as it slid upward, seeming to follow the maze of grout until it ended at rough wood. She followed the under side of the roof until she finally reached the edge, and then strong hands wrapped her fingertips and palm around it, pulling until her grip held strong. She let go of the rock, her body being pulled up to the point where it was less of a hold point and more of a safety, and as she did her other arm reached up to grasp it and pull herself up once more. Her head peeked out over the top of the roof, her body never stopping to push against the force trying to send her cascading back to the earth. Her neck edged over now, her shoulders begining to assist in the action more then before and her elbows turning in to support her weight with a pushing force now instead of a pull. She felt the shift in her weight just barelly in time as her right arm gave out, dropping he body just as her torso peeked over. Her chest dropped down to catch against the thatched roof as her arm gave out. She slid a few inches before her right arm shot back out, catching her hand flattened against the rough surface. She inched her body forward, left and then right, and with each small shift she slid more and more onto the roof.

     "Fuck...UGH ARG" The roof was pressing against her stomach now as she continued to slide bit by bit fully onto the roof. The pressure made her abdomen hurt a bit but thankfully pain was something she was used to. Finally she felt her thighs touch the sharp feeling corner of the roof. She turned over, her butt planting on the edge with her legs dangling over and with a bit of effort she pushed herself up to a sitting position. "that....Hurts soo much more then it should," she said to herself. her statement was answered by a voice behind her.

    "Perhaps...You should consider not climbing free form onto a roof in your condition Kid. I hear that eases the pain of oh...I don't know.....climbing onto a roof free form?" It was amber, her hair a deep royal blue that looked strange against the black night sky. Her clothes resembled her own perfectly, Short cropped army green shorts that ended just a few inches down her thigh with pockets on the tiny amount of fabric that pretended to cover her legs, A long sleeved fish net under shirt with leather top that stopped off just above her toned stomach, low cut  to expose a bit of her cleavage, and below it the savar suit making her skin seem coal black as it hugged her body like a glove. "Amber. I neeed to.." She nodded. "I know Kira. You needed to clear your head and free running would let you do that as well as work on the now constant stiffness in your body but you really need to take it easy. If you fall off of this building you'll have more problems then just stiffness to worry about. Maybe you should have considered doing it on the ground instead of across roof tops twenty feet in the air?"

    Of course she had a point. It was the decision of a raving lunatic to take a broken weak body and go scaling the side of a stone building for no reason other then because you felt like it. It was an aweful decision and she could have died, but honestly death was not really looking like such an awful idea right now. She wasn't sure how long she would feel like this, but if it didn't stop soon she considered death potentially more beneficial. "Stop thinking about it Kira. You are not going to die. Selene and I will ensure that so you need to concentate on getting your body back into shape. Come on. " She took a few steps towards the girl sitting on the edge, bending down a bit to reach out a hand to her. Kira took the assistance, pulling as Amber pulled and together they got her back up to her feet. "I can only assume there is no way to convince you not to do this?" Amber asked, her words coming out as a pesky requirement instead of a legitimate request. She knew there wasn't and as kira shook her head she was proven right. "Alright then...Let's go i suppose. " They took off, running up the slope of the roof. Their aiming point was the next roof which was around a five foot jump, terrifying and impossible for a normal person but for the girls currently tackling the task it was childs play. "Sorrow, Hatred" The two girls called for their weapons, Amber catching the scythe of sorrow to slide it quickly onto her back as Kira extended her arm, flipping forward to hop over the tip of the triangular roof, the shield and sword appearing on her left arm just as her feet touched back down against the ground. "Really?" amber said, shaking her head at the rediculously unneeded movement. she had just cost herself momentum which in her weakened condition could be a problem. They both took off, running down the downward sloping portion of the roof and quickly getting up to their full speed. Moments before they would fall off they each pushed off against the floor below them, Kira with her right and Amber with her left and each glided through the air towards the roof a distance away.

    As amber's right foot touched down she brought her left back in front of her, her moment only barely slowed by the great leap. Kira however touched the tip of her foot against the roof, feeling the overwhelming forward momentum and acted in kind. her knee buckled on command, and her body fell forward, her head tucked inward for protection. She rolled forward, her head slipping under her chest and her lower body easilly flowing over her head to continue her forward motion and as her back and legs finally hit the ground her feet caught against the rough material of the roof, allowing her body to raise back up to a standing position and off she went just a step or two behind the other woman.

(TWC 1317)

"Alright Kira, hang to the left. We're going to split up. If one of us misses a step we use the weapons to catch the other. " Kira nodded, taking the sword from it's sheith behind her arm. At the same time Amber unlatched the ball of her weapon from the clip at her hip on the right side where it had hung, swinging softly back and forth against her thigh as she ran. As they jumped, each heading towards a building opposite each other they connected the two weapons, each holding the chain portions in the hand that pointed towards the other. The two spun around each other to pull together, holding strong. This would be Kira's safety net if she got in trouble. Kira's arms flailed to slow her momentum as she flew through the air once more, and as her feet touched down she pushed forward, her feet getting perfectly under her body and pushing her forward to continue her movement. Her arm raised the weapon high in the air, almost teasing the world to test her as she ran across the flat roof of the local ramen shop, a favorite in the village due to the cold conditions and the ramen soup's unique way to fill the consumer's chest with a warming comfort. Amber landed also, her momentum not slowed as she touched down against the ground, and her upper body moved more swiftly her lower body had. She fell to the earth, pushing off with her feet as her body went completely horizontal. the push was just enough to allow her head to tuck under herself, her neck hitting the ground and the curve of her neck and back allowing her body to roll back to her feet in a crouch that she quickly turned back into a forward flow. As her butt touched against the roof her feet pushed off once more, propelling her body forward in another leap. her body spun clock wise as she flipped head over heels, four rotations and two full flips finishing before her ankles braced her weight against the roof top once more. It took a total of two steps after landing before she was jumping again, this one less forced. She simply seemed to walk off of the edge of the building, her speed alone carrying her body the distance it needed. The opening between buildings was only three feet this time, and the building she stood on was a full story taller then the one she lept to, allowing for an easy jump.

Kira moved across the next roof, this one a four part raised roof that came to a point dead center. She rose slightly up and then back down as she traveled over the outer corner of the building, jumping early to fall over the edge of the building. Amber's head snapped to the side, seeing the child fall over and her feet skidded a foot across the roof to stop her momentum. Just as she came to a stop she saw the girl's body appear over the bottom of the roof, leaping from the side of the building in an almost upside down swan dive. She flipped once, her body turning head over heels once more and as she came back towards the ground her body righted itself and her feet hit the pavement below. "Really Kid...You couldn't give me a heads up that you were going to lemon drop?! I thought you were dead!!!"

Kira turned her attention to Amber for a moment as she ran across the next roof, shifting her direction drastically to leap towards a roof top that would connect them both once more. Amber shook her head, shifting her hips to push her feet forward once more. They both leaped in perfect unison, landing with a forward roll once more on the same roof and coming to a stop.

"Feel better now Kira?" Each girl took deep breaths, trying to slow their heartbeat back down to a normal level. Kira nodded, testing her arms by rotating her wrists, moving down to bend her arm at the elbow and then turning her shoulders one by one.

"Yea....I think so. My head doesn't feel like it's swimming any more. The adrenaline has definitely done some good. My reactions and movments still feel a bit slugish though. This whatever it was really knocekd me for a loop, are you sure neither of you have any clue what happened to make me pass out?"

"No clue. We were running across the tundra and then everything wen tblack for all three of us Kid. It was the strangest thing. " She brushed the stray bits of her bangs to the side, tucking them behind her ears as she spoke. She hated lying to the girl, not that she wasn't excelent at it. her face wouldn't show a single sign of falsification and there would be no inflection in her voice. Everything about the statement would show that it was true, not that Kira would doubt her for a moment.

"Hm...Alright. Well Did you want to return to ground level now?" They walked together towards the edge of the building, desummmoning the weapons quickly. The flashes of black and blue energy appeared and then spun in on themselves to disappear into nothingness.

(TWC 2206)

Amber moved first, dropping down the side of the building without a care in the world. As she fell she turned her body, her arms outstreatched, and just as her head reached the edge her hands caught onto it, gripping tightly. Her body moved inward, her toes touching down against the stone to anchor her movement. As she turned her head, vaulting backwards to begin a long winded backflip kira dropped off, following suit. her hands caught as ambers had, her body resting against the side of the building holding onto the edge with her finger tips. Unlike amber she looked downward, seeing her next target just a bit to the left below her. she reached her arm down, her body contorting to look like a spider moving easilly across the wall, shifting the direction her body faced as if she could legitimately walk on walls. Her right hand was now around four inches from the next hand hold point, a large retangular bit of brick that jutted out far enough to wrap her fingers around. She dropped, catching the ledge with one arm and causing her body to begin swinging back and forth fairly violently at first. She slowed the momentum, raising her other arm to get both attacked to the ledge she needed to keep held onto in order to survive the climb downward. Her feet slid against the stone with a soft scraping sound as she finally stopped her swinging momentum to look onward to the next hold. Across the alleyway was a window frame just the right height, she thought. She set her feet firmly against the stone beneath her, turning her head to keep sight on the target and the bounded off.

   Meanwhile Another simply roll, this one backwards, which caused her chest to hit fairly painfully, landed amber on the ground to look up, providing a safety net in the event Kira missed a hand hold or her arms gave out on her again. She worried about the girl. She was taking off strait from being breathed new life to incredible feats. It amazed her. Any other person would be still bed ridden. An exceptional person would be retraining their muscles to be able to do simple tasks. This girl however had skipped the training wheels entirely and moved strait on to free running, taking her time thankfully, but dropping down from the height of a second story building, trusting the power of her once dead muscles to hold her weight as she dropped hand over hand, catching each hand hold with incredibly surprising power.

    She pushed off of the wall, turning in mid air to allow her kick to push her across the the open air of the alley way. She hit the wall harder then she'd expected, her force too much for the short distance she had to travel and the downward angle. her fingers burned as the rough stone pushed her fingernails inward roughly, her knees crashed against the hard material, bettering her skin and sraping at least a leyer off at several places, and she began to swing again, this time more wildly, wildly enough that her right hand lost its hold. She dropped a foot, her arm extending, unable to hold her weight, and her feet once more skidded against the rock. Four fingers shifted left and right with her momentum, her pointer finger releasing and a squeak of fear ushering from her lips.

   "Kira!" Amber rushed forward, kicking off the wall to catch onto a large outward jutting rock to push herself upwards to help her quickly. Kira pulled upward, trying to catch her other arm back by thrusting upwards but the action was futile. She missed the hold by inches, her hand not quite reaching high enough, and began to swing harder, losing a second finger. Her body dipped lower as her three fingers struggled to keep it's grip. Meanwhile Amber pushed off, flying across the open air as Kira had but instead of catching hold she pushed off again. The flow of her body and the strength of her legs allowed her to be pushed the opposite direction. She caught the edge of the door phrame with her foot as her hands caught with sure strength. She was just under Kira now, and as she pulled upward Kira's legs caught on her shoulder. She had just the strength to assist in pushing the girl the distance she needed and as she came within range her hands caught tightly onto the stone once more.

    "Thank you." She said a little embarrassed that she'd almost fallen. With Amber's assistance she made the second drop, catching onto the door frame for a split second and then dropped the rest of the way, her last hand hold only slowing her momentum as she made her drop down to the earth where she landed, her knees bending at the knee to absorb the impact and finish her acrobatics. With her on the ground Amber dropped, catching the door frame and pushing off with her feet to backflip once, landing one foot and then the other to round off and absorb the weight with a light hop, and then finally come to rest as Kira had.

    "Alright kid....Lets get out of here. " Her words fell on deaf ears as the girl took off once more, jumping up to kick off of the wall, her body spinning as she flipped side ways. As her feet hit the ground she ducked her head under and front flipped low. Her feet touched down as they had so many times and she pushed forward again.

   "Kira...I...." Amber shook her head, "Good luck kid" She would say under her breath, watching the girl move. Her body flowed with increasing strength with this move. She was remarkable, the woman thought, which only solidified that they were in fact the same person. Kira was like to Amber in almost every sense. They both found unfortunate situations and they both saught to perseve. Kira was Amber's light, the small bit of hope that she would be able to survive the darkness. she simply disappeared from existence like a bit of smoke in a strong wind. her purpose was completed. With Kira on the ground where she would be safe Her existence wasn't needed.

    "This feels...." She began a series of front flips, shifting her body left and right to add a spin varying directions with each move up until her fifth, when her legs hit wrong and her knees buckled once more. She fell to the ground, arms outstretched and skidded against the dirt ground below. It hurt, and she expected there to be a bit of blood, but thankfully she was fine. She took this as an indication that her body was done. She headed back into the Inn, nodding at the bar keep who at this point was used to her antics and she headded up the stairs. She slipped into her room, locking the door behind her and as she hit the bed, armor and items still on her person she drifted immediately off into a deep restful sleep.

(TWC 4400 claiming 22 stats and 4400 towards cursed mark)

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