"What just broke?" - Deaths, Julian De'AthtaennynAugust 5 2010, 21:06:27 UTC
She was fighting her way forward across the trestle bridge for the third time when there was a k-CHONK noise underneath her feet and she and her current opponent both froze as the bridge wobbled.
" . . . What just broke?" the man asked, half-under his breath, casting an eye towards the edge of the trestle, and she shrugged carefully.
The bridge creaked again, and started listing to upriver. "--something that shouldn't have," she told him, then started running, ducking under his scythe handle and making a break for his side of the bank.
She heard him shout behind her, along with more crumbling noises from the bridge, and ran faster.
They both made it, but barely, and they stood for a moment watching her line of retreat and escape shatter into the river, long posts and iron cross-beams alike screaming as they fell.
Then he grimly tightened his hands on his scythe and turned to face her again.
She smacked him hard in the center of the chest with the butt-end of her own scythe, knocking him towards the abrupt edge
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Re: "What just broke?" - Deaths, Julian De'AthbillradishAugust 6 2010, 19:09:21 UTC
It makes perfect sense that it's not what they're concerned with at the moment, but I'm less curious about what broke than I am about why it broke. *peers*
but circumstances suggested and she was willing to go with it.
" . . . What just broke?" the man asked, half-under his breath, casting an eye towards the edge of the trestle, and she shrugged carefully.
The bridge creaked again, and started listing to upriver. "--something that shouldn't have," she told him, then started running, ducking under his scythe handle and making a break for his side of the bank.
She heard him shout behind her, along with more crumbling noises from the bridge, and ran faster.
They both made it, but barely, and they stood for a moment watching her line of retreat and escape shatter into the river, long posts and iron cross-beams alike screaming as they fell.
Then he grimly tightened his hands on his scythe and turned to face her again.
She smacked him hard in the center of the chest with the butt-end of her own scythe, knocking him towards the abrupt edge ( ... )
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but circumstances suggested and she was willing to go with it.
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*laaaaaaughing!* Maybe not 'only'.... (It's like you're getting to know her or something!)
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