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[aeons_crackshot]

Someone is bored and worried about certain visitors and residents of City 17. How does Annabelle deal with this? By playing dodging games with the Whomping Willow while wearing looted Combine body armor. (Without the helmet, of course. A shotgun shell through the faceplate tends to render a helmet rather unusable

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[a1enzo]

Enzo will admire them, very much. Actually, if he were a few years older, he'd probably be drooling. (Hey, don't judge him.)

Drool or not, he's watching raptly and making small movements of semiconscious imitation, leaning this way and that as she dodges, flexing arms and legs as she strikes and leaps.

[aeons_crackshot]

It wouldn't be the first time Annabelle has caused that sort of reaction by a long shot. Although, at least in her earlier years, Annabelle didn't always notice. Joining Æon at 14 resulted in her missing a lot of the how-to's of interactions between the sexes.

The Whomping Willow is going to kill the annoying biped. It looks like Annabelle is doomed for a moment, as all of the limbs converge on her position and the Willow stretches out as far as its trunk will allow. Annabelle just laughs madly as she bends so far backward her torso is nearly on the ground. She grabs hold of one of the branches and uses its thrashing to pull her out of the way of the other limbs. Before it can quite react to the human that is now hanging onto the thrashing limb high in the air, Annabelle has let go. She does a double back flip and sticks her landing just outside of its reach.

"Hello Enzo!"

[a1enzo]

One... two... Enzo shakes his head and picks his jaw up. "Uh, hi!"

[aeons_crackshot]

Annabelle grins, she was showing off on purpose. Once a performer, always a performer.

"I figured that I'd better get used to this armor before I have to use it in the field. Whatever the Combine made this stuff out of, it's a lot more flexible than what we used to get back home."

The Whomping Willow is now doing its best 'La la la I'm just a normal tree' impression.