"I could jump!" Dimitri offers, not entirely aware of if he could reach it or not. He has decent height on himself, he could reach up. Probably. Still... "If you're certain, then. Hopefully everything holds well enough..." It will certainly be embarrassing if they crash through the floor and have to explain injuries to the Nurse Joy in town.

As Dimitri starts to follow him, Gremlin scurries atop his head to better shine the flashlight. Gotta help! "Is that a complaint I hear?" Dimitri teases, careful of where he's putting his feet. He's never been particularly careful or subtle, unfortunately... "We can always go back down, if it is."

"Understood." Obediently, Dimitri awkwardly just... skips two steps entirely, once he's certain that Felix is far enough ahead of him. "You know, I heard that the other tower is interesting as well - the one that isn't burned down. But the monks there are far more strict than those in Bell Tower."

"I think you are stretching somewhat to call advice any sort of 'rule'," Dimitri comments as he reaches the top as well. He pauses a moment, allowing Gremlin to swing the light around again. Something skitters away from the light, behind the ruins of a pillar. Well, as long as it's not bothering them...

"Perhaps it is a sort of holy place. I told you some of the myth behind it, did I not?"

Dimitri makes a small noise that says, yes, he knows Felix, but must you call him out on it?

It's Felix. Of course he did.

Moving on. "Yes, the two towers were meant as roosts for a pair of Legendary bird Pokemon. When this was struck down, one of the birds left forever, and the other... blessed three Pokemon that had fallen in the tragedy, transforming them. Perhaps, with that in mind, the town regards this as a sacred sight of sorts."

"I don't believe so," Dimitri answers with a shake of his head, allowing Gremlin back down again for floor navigation. "They became legendary creatures in their own right... Legendary Beasts, they were described at."

Dimitri glances around at the sad sight. "Still... The sight of a tragedy is still a tragedy." No matter who survives.

"You're acting a little hastily," Dimitri points out quietly, stepping forward in the appropriate spaces when Gremlin squeaks at them across the room. He paid attention to the Rattata's movements and decisions.

"I could only guess at the reason why it has been left in the state that it is, and I am merely an outsider to the city and its history. Perhaps there is something I don't know, or a cultural expectation that I missed."

"I think we will fall through either the roof or the floor if we try all the way to the top," Dimitri says with a shake of his head, inspecting the next set of stairs. These one's absolutely aren't traversable like normal... But he thinks the two of them can still make their way up with a bit of clambering and care.

"But the next floor... I think that should be high enough. We can stop there."

So. This seems like. a questionable idea.

Dimitri raises his eyebrows when Felix hauls himself onto the railing, and starts following as best he can with his hands already raised and just waiting to catch his boyfriend. It feels inevitable, somehow, that something bad is going to happen. He just doesn't know exactly how or when.

"Felix, are you certain you should be making your way up like this?"

"I will pull myself up, I suppose," Dimitri says, still following along. His eye goes over to the gap in the railing that Felix is going to have to deal with sooner or later. "It is not as hard as one might think."

...

"If I go up, then I won't be able to offer any assistance if you need me to carry a bag, or take Ordelia off your hands," he says, equally casual. Felix is the kind of person who stubbornly does everything himself if he possibly can; he has to tread carefully here.

Although it is considerably tempting to just clamber up and leave Felix on his own. Maybe learn a lesson that won't stick.

"If you insist." At least Felix is sensible enough to put Ordelia away. As for him, Dimitri looks over the obstacle before him, and then holds out his arm so that Gremlin can scurry down it. It takes a little bit of searching to find a place that will hold even a Rattata's weight.

After that, it's relatively simple. They simply do what they've been doing with the floorboards: Gremlin searching out the different areas to see which ones look sturdy enough. Befitting his kind, Gremlin is rather quick about it, darting here and there with the Gear light bouncing around from his mouth.

Soon, there's a series of squeaks, the the light bounces in the gloom from Gremlin's own excited jumps. Dimitri nods, and starts to carefully clamber along what he can: the bits of stairs that are holding up good enough, exposed or broken pieces of wood that can be used as a handle for just a moment, and even a part of the second floor once he gets high enough to start hauling himself up.

He likes to think he's become quite good at climbing, after having to live on his own for five years.

"Wh-" Felix, he didn't think you would jump before he could be in a prepared position for it.

Fortunately, the wood is as sturdy as - well, maybe not as sturdy as Dimitri is. But it manages to hold when additional weight is suddenly added, and Dimitri grunts just a little bit. This isn't really the most comfortable position, but, he'll put up with it.

"So you did need help!"