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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:39 pm
Spider's Silk, with a bucket still on her head, said, "Oi! That's my line! Are you alright?" She couldn't see him now, but she thought he wasn't looking his best last time she checked.
"Anyway, I'm fine. I just need to get this bucket off." She shook her whole body, 'til the bucket fell off. Her ribbon, hair, and all the fur on her head were wet and in unseemly clumps that stuck to her skin. While she couldn't see herself, she thought she must've looked a hot mess.
But she knew that really wasn't of consequence now. She dropped all the buckets she had and walked over to Grant. "Seriously, though, do you need help with anything?" She felt guilty about what had happened.
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:54 am
"Aha... I've had better days..." Grant just laid there as Spider's Silk shook the bucket off, lifting his head to look at her when she came over.
At her offer, he smiled weakly. "Would you mind helping me get up?" The one paw that had been trapped beneath him was definitely injured in some way or another, and Grant knew that it probably wasn't in good enough condition to try and stand on it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:19 pm
Another Captain Obvious? Spider's Silk knew this couldn't have been Grant's best day. She didn't even want to imagine who would think this was on a list of things that happen on a good day. Those two really are two-of-a-kind. Or like an ace and a deuce.
"I don't mind at all." She propped him up on her shoulder. While she was frou frou, she was still a Circini and she was no stranger to labor like this. "We need to get out of here. I'm thinking I could stack all those buckets up and we could climb to the top."
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:16 pm
"Thank you." Grant nudged the disarrayed ribbon out of Spider's Silk's face. He was relieved that she didn't act like most of the other girls he'd met.
He looked upward as she made her suggestion. "That might work. If it doesn't reach, we might have to jump at the end." His expression was calm as he gazed upward. He grimaced. "Otherwise, we'll have to wait for Ace to return, and then I will be teased for time and all eternity."
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:48 pm
"No problem. And thanks." Spider's Silk had some idea why he was comforting her. She hoped he wasn't judging her purely on her act. The way she was up there was fake, more or less. She was being real down here. Once they got out of here, she was going to come clean about this all.
"Now, it's time for me to get to work." After that, she put the buckets upside down and then stacked them against the wall into a pyramid. Well, it was more of an irregular pentagonal prism than a pyramid, but she would've said it was one if anyone asked simply because it was less of a mouthful than the other. "There!" She looked back over at him. "You should go first. I'll be right behind you."
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:54 am
Grant nodded, despite the fact that he wanted to insist her going first. After all, if the buckets fell, Spider's Silk could restack them; with his injury, he doubted he could. He climbed carefully up the pyramid of buckets, his wounded paw tucked against his side.
Only the top bucket fell from the structure, and only after Grant put most of his weight on it to push himself out of the hole. "Heads up!" he called as the bucket descended back towards Spider's Silk. The last thing they needed was her getting hurt and stuck down there.
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:56 pm
Spider's Silk ran to the left as the bucket fell down, bounced a couple of times, and then spun around before finally stopping in the middle of the hole. "Phew! That was a close one."
She just had to stack them back up again. After she did, she climbed up them and got out of the hole. "Finally!" She was so overjoyed that she was dancing around in circles. "I never thought I'd be so glad just to be here."
Then, she came to a full stop. She had a searing headache, the insides of her ears itched, and she felt like she had swallowed a bunch of pine cones whole. I'm forgetting something, aren't I? Think, think, think... Oh, I remember know! I'm supposed to tell them that. "I have something important to tell you." She bowed her head. "This is my fault. I'm sorry."
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:18 pm
Grant chuckled at the girl's happy dance. He was stretching out his injured paw experimentally when Spider's Silk admitted that it was her fault. He just looked over at her and smiled. "I had a feeling that was the case." His smile brightened. "When you have a best friend as mischievous as Ace, you learn to pick those sort of things up."
"I've already said hello and mentioned safety hazards. So..." The Gladier turned and started limping in the direction Ace had gone. "All that's left is... walking away, right?" He glanced over his shoulder at her. "Maybe I'll see you around."
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