Which is true enough, until he reaches the gap and stops, lowering into a full crouch and holding onto the railing in front of him with his free hand. He surveys his options. They include...a standing jump that's almost certainly too long to make, or dropping down to the stairs that he can tell just by looking at them won't hold his weight.
Fuck. This is so stupid. But he refuses to go back down and prove Dimitri right. He feels like a cat stuck in a damn tree.
He glances down at Dimitri, casually. "You go ahead, then. I'll join you on the way up."
And by 'join you' he means 'wait until you're close enough to jump onto your back and ride on your shoulders like a monkey.'
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Which is true enough, until he reaches the gap and stops, lowering into a full crouch and holding onto the railing in front of him with his free hand. He surveys his options. They include...a standing jump that's almost certainly too long to make, or dropping down to the stairs that he can tell just by looking at them won't hold his weight.
Fuck. This is so stupid. But he refuses to go back down and prove Dimitri right. He feels like a cat stuck in a damn tree.
He glances down at Dimitri, casually. "You go ahead, then. I'll join you on the way up."
And by 'join you' he means 'wait until you're close enough to jump onto your back and ride on your shoulders like a monkey.'