08-22-2003, 10:48 AM
Thank you, Tiamat and urban!
Scene 7, take 1!
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Kari was just hitting the top of her arc when her brain began to tell her that, yes, you WERE just kicked in the ass, and yes, you DID go flying, and yes, you ARE gonna kill that boy when you land.
It was only as the arc reached its end that Kari realized that she was not going to be landing on her feet, oh no. Her arms pinwheeled, as if she were trying to push herself backwards through the air.
She hit the ground face-first, scraping a knee and an elbow on the same side and cutting her chin open so that it gushed blood and she bit her tongue filling her mouth with bitter copper blood--
Kari groaned, and slumped on the ground.
***
Tai was just approaching his sister to congratulate her when she suddenly became airborne. He watched in startled awe as she rose up into the air, peaked, hanging in the air over the sidewalk, caught in time, and then came back down--
--HARD.
He heard her groan--a sharply agonizing sound that shook him to his bones and made his skin crawl as if made of maggots--and was there by her side, pulling her to her feet, hands unconsciously checking her for injuries--
He saw her cut chin, and anger swelled like a thunderous roar in his belly. Who would dare? Who would *dare*? How *dare*--
Tai
Scene 7, take 1!
***
Kari was just hitting the top of her arc when her brain began to tell her that, yes, you WERE just kicked in the ass, and yes, you DID go flying, and yes, you ARE gonna kill that boy when you land.
It was only as the arc reached its end that Kari realized that she was not going to be landing on her feet, oh no. Her arms pinwheeled, as if she were trying to push herself backwards through the air.
She hit the ground face-first, scraping a knee and an elbow on the same side and cutting her chin open so that it gushed blood and she bit her tongue filling her mouth with bitter copper blood--
Kari groaned, and slumped on the ground.
***
Tai was just approaching his sister to congratulate her when she suddenly became airborne. He watched in startled awe as she rose up into the air, peaked, hanging in the air over the sidewalk, caught in time, and then came back down--
--HARD.
He heard her groan--a sharply agonizing sound that shook him to his bones and made his skin crawl as if made of maggots--and was there by her side, pulling her to her feet, hands unconsciously checking her for injuries--
He saw her cut chin, and anger swelled like a thunderous roar in his belly. Who would dare? Who would *dare*? How *dare*--
Tai