"The roofs are mine," Nerine hisses in that brief period before Galli decides there's nothing more to be done and calls out "Start!"
On the ground, there are exchanges such as "Wanna climb up?" "And get kicked in the face?" The Sisters retreat far enough to be able to watch without crimping their necks and mostly seeing overhanging roof. The view is not as good from this distance and with all the movement it's harder to savor details. They commence to mostly cheering Nerine. Difficult as she can be, she is still one of them. And she's putting on a great show of that in-your-face agility that makes her such trouble to spar against. "She was a robber, right?" "No, a burglar, there's a difference. Robbers make threats. She came over the roofs and just broke into things." "If she was sneaking around why's she like that?" and etc. They gasp and protest at appropriate moments.
Galli's attention isn't on the tiny girl. She sighs, "He fought a bear for no reason, I guess there wasn't any way he could be normal," and feels a twinge go right up her spine. This has been a day of discovery for Galli. Hesri is having a worse time, joggling a little kid against her hip and running disaster scenarios in her head. She'll have to send someone to the Healers...
It is a particular quirk of Nerine that in moments of real exertion and upset she cannot say cool things in a cool, held-together voice. She yelps "Waugh! Mom!" as she loses balance and tries catlike to claw her way up Guts. And then they hit the hay. Nerine is... absolutely gonna keep trying to grab his headband. She's not done yet!
There had been some shrieks of horror from the peanut gallery but now they've gone silent. "What do you naliz think you're doing?" asks one of the conjoined Healer-twins. With frigid dignity the other says "Are you trying to break your backs?"
Giving no sign that she hadn't ambled casually over, Lashan says "Oh, no, don't mind me. They've got 'concerned' and 'angry' out of the way and that means I'm free to laugh."
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On the ground, there are exchanges such as "Wanna climb up?" "And get kicked in the face?" The Sisters retreat far enough to be able to watch without crimping their necks and mostly seeing overhanging roof. The view is not as good from this distance and with all the movement it's harder to savor details. They commence to mostly cheering Nerine. Difficult as she can be, she is still one of them. And she's putting on a great show of that in-your-face agility that makes her such trouble to spar against. "She was a robber, right?" "No, a burglar, there's a difference. Robbers make threats. She came over the roofs and just broke into things." "If she was sneaking around why's she like that?" and etc. They gasp and protest at appropriate moments.
Galli's attention isn't on the tiny girl. She sighs, "He fought a bear for no reason, I guess there wasn't any way he could be normal," and feels a twinge go right up her spine. This has been a day of discovery for Galli. Hesri is having a worse time, joggling a little kid against her hip and running disaster scenarios in her head. She'll have to send someone to the Healers...
It is a particular quirk of Nerine that in moments of real exertion and upset she cannot say cool things in a cool, held-together voice. She yelps "Waugh! Mom!" as she loses balance and tries catlike to claw her way up Guts. And then they hit the hay. Nerine is... absolutely gonna keep trying to grab his headband. She's not done yet!
There had been some shrieks of horror from the peanut gallery but now they've gone silent. "What do you naliz think you're doing?" asks one of the conjoined Healer-twins. With frigid dignity the other says "Are you trying to break your backs?"
Giving no sign that she hadn't ambled casually over, Lashan says "Oh, no, don't mind me. They've got 'concerned' and 'angry' out of the way and that means I'm free to laugh."