Kathy was too pumped to go back to the dorms and safety after class got out, so she decided that patrolling was just the thing to do. Maybe she'd find some sign of whoever had sent the eels with jetpacks after the island?
In all honesty, though, she didn't really care whether she did or not. She was just having a good time.
...Yeah, Kathy's priorities might need to be examined. But that was for later. Now was for eel-hunting.
She didn't even pause to wonder why there were a cluster of eels swarming around a tree. She was too busy flinging herself into the middle of it with a well-placed spin kick. Several eels went crashing to the ground and Kathy grabbed for a tree branch to help pull herself into posi-- "Ahh!"
"Whoa, hey! Hold on!" Kathy let go of his branch, landing in a couch on another a few feet below. She wobbled on it for a moment before catching her balance and very slowly stood up.
Thank you crazy super-agility powers. You were the very best and Kathy loved you lots and lots.
"You okay?" she asked, looking up at him. She tensed, in case he was going to make good on that threat and fall out of the tree.
"As long as there's no sudden earthquakes or no one shakes the tree, I'll be fine," Travis said, letting out a breath and relaxing the grip on his skateboard. "I'm good."
The eels were getting frisky again. Kathy lightly ran along her branch, out to the very end, and swung her ribbons, slamming the reinforced handles into the contraptions the eels wore on their backs. The ones with broken machinery fell, screaming all the while. The ones that she'd hit dead on also fell, but with less screaming.
She darted back towards the trunk, then climbed up a few more branches until she was closer to the one Travis had claimed. "If you wanna head back for the dorms, I can cover you?"
"I dunno," Kathy teased, looking around. "No real wifi signal out here. And no where to plug in my phone. Plus, I'm a California girl. Once it hits fifty degrees, it's officially too cold to contemplate being outside for an extended period of time."
She smiled up at him. "I'm Kathy, by the way. You know, if we're gonna be tree-buddies for a little bit."
"Travis," he said, nodding. "And I'm from the midwest so cold doesn't really bother me. I'll just grow a beard or something and use leaves for warmth."
"I think I'm a little short on the ability to grow a decent beard, even if I were inclined to join you in your quest for hermitude," Kathy said. Which she most definitely was not. "I don't think I'm cut out for living in a tree, sadly. Or anywhere without heating and central air."
"Oh me?" Kathy flushed a little bit. "I'm, umm, really fast? So I was doing a circuit of the whole island, just to see if I could find anything useful."
"I mean, I run really, really fast," Kathy said, ducking her head. "Like...keeping up with cars, fast. But I always feel like I'm bragging when I say stuff like that."
[This past week has been hell on my schedule, sorry! I'll understand if you'd rather drop this thread, just wanted to respond!]
In all honesty, though, she didn't really care whether she did or not. She was just having a good time.
...Yeah, Kathy's priorities might need to be examined. But that was for later. Now was for eel-hunting.
She didn't even pause to wonder why there were a cluster of eels swarming around a tree. She was too busy flinging herself into the middle of it with a well-placed spin kick. Several eels went crashing to the ground and Kathy grabbed for a tree branch to help pull herself into posi-- "Ahh!"
There was another kid in the tree!
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Thank you crazy super-agility powers. You were the very best and Kathy loved you lots and lots.
"You okay?" she asked, looking up at him. She tensed, in case he was going to make good on that threat and fall out of the tree.
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The eels were getting frisky again. Kathy lightly ran along her branch, out to the very end, and swung her ribbons, slamming the reinforced handles into the contraptions the eels wore on their backs. The ones with broken machinery fell, screaming all the while. The ones that she'd hit dead on also fell, but with less screaming.
She darted back towards the trunk, then climbed up a few more branches until she was closer to the one Travis had claimed. "If you wanna head back for the dorms, I can cover you?"
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He was joking. Kind of.
"Good covering if there's rain or snow and only really gotta worry about lightning. I could do worse."
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She smiled up at him. "I'm Kathy, by the way. You know, if we're gonna be tree-buddies for a little bit."
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No, it would not.
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[This past week has been hell on my schedule, sorry! I'll understand if you'd rather drop this thread, just wanted to respond!]
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He just got to die and have his head sewed on someone else's body. Totally creepy.
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