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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:11 am
Lin had been up a few hills in the Second world, and one could consider them big when she was a small Surprise. Though she had never been walking up like this, nor something that was getting this steep. She found herself leaning forward a bit to keep her balance.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:20 am
"It's okay to use your hands if you have to," Adanedhel told Lin cheerfully. "Ever Ara-kun has to sometimes, it makes it a lot easier to get up the places that are really really steep!"
"And you will have to use rocks, trees and bushes as handholds," Aragost added in his deep murmur. "Especially when you are tracking ... because what you are tracking ... is able to go over any terrain ... and you must train yourself to do the same."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:26 am
She certainly had never been up something like this, not to actually use her hands. Looking up, somehow it made sense that she would have to grab something.
"How steep does it get?" she asked.
She leaned over and used her hands to help herself along and up the mountain. This was a very new experience.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:31 am
Adanedhel grinned and scrambled up on a large rock.
"Sometimes," he giggled, turning around to face Lin, "you gotta climb backwards!"
Aragost sighed and walked around the rock. "We will not be going to that area today, Adanedhel," he murmured. "It is far too difficult for someone who is here for the first time."
He glanced down at Lin. "There are certain cliff faces that we must climb at times, which are so steep that indeed, as we climb up we are climbing backwards."
He held up his hands to show her, laying one hand flat to represent normal ground, and the other one on an angle to show the mountainside.
"Normally we would climb on the top of this," he told her, pointing to the top side of his slanted hand. "Yet there are times when the rock overhangs, and we must climb it from below."
Just how that was possible with his billowing cloak was debatable, but somehow he managed it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:41 am
Lin watched as she scrambled around the rock, grabbing a hold of it to help her up. She couldn't imagine something like that, but maybe if she got better.
"Oh...." she murmured thinking about, "I don't think I would want to do that quite yet."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:45 am
Aragost chuckled softly.
"I thought not," he murmured, amused. "Perhaps someday. After all, if you are to go traveling with Prince Earendil someday, then it is something that you will need to know how to do ... especially if you hope to travel to other lands, where the terrain is far from friendly, as the land here is."
He grew quiet, thoughtful, for a moment. If she were to learn to rockclimb with any level of competency, then she would have to spend a week or so up in the mountain with him. But Donovan would likely be back soon, and so it would not work out on this visit.
"Perhaps another time, you could spend a week or two up in the mountain with Adanedhel and myself," he suggested softly.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:48 am
She took it for granted after a while that Aragost knew everything, because of that she never questioned it. Lin thought about it, that sounded like fun, and useful. Well it was useful he said so and he traveled so he must know what was useful.
"I hope so," Lin grinned, "That would be something I'd like to do."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:51 am
Aragost nodded. 'Then I will ask your father when he returns," he said softly. "After all, it does not have to be done with you here on your own ... it would be easier on his mind, I believe, if we were to make this trip while he was on a hunt."
Unlike the time she had gone to the Southland for a week on her own. Of course, Sir Valdemar hadn't been able to say anything beyond that - the fool had run out the moment of her arrival, but still, Aragost did know that much.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:57 am
Lin grinned at that, that would be so much better tahn her coming to her Daddy again... about lessons. Besides, at least she would be spending only 24 hour days.
"Okay," she told him, "I can see that.... it's not like staying at the castle."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:02 am
Aragost smiled to himself. He could imagine. He had never lived in a castle. Truth be told, the quarters where he was living now was the first building he had ever lived in. Despite his age, he had only in the past decade had a roof over his head.
"The lands are different, indeed," he murmured absently, picking his way through a bramble bush.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:55 pm
Lin wondered how Aragost could move all the way up in that cloak of his, it seemed as impractical as her Daddy's long coat. Though both men seemed to not be bothered at all by it.
It was just little things like that she noticed as she slowly made her way with the two upwards. Keeping her mind busy was always useful, though she was busy enough making her way up.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:06 pm
After a while, the ground leveled out again, though it was only a small plateau that was barely worth calling a plateau. Nevertheless, when they reached it, Aragost called a stop.
"We should rest a bit before continuing," he told the children. "There won't be another chance for a few hours."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:12 pm
A few hours, it was amazing she just wasn't all jelly legs quite yet, though it might have to do with the fact that it was a bit different than just simply going up a very very very long stair case. Lin sat, stretching her legs out because simply she would not want to get jelly legs all the way up there.
And she couldn't help but peer back where they came from.
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:46 pm
Adan flopped down on the ground ext to Lin and grinned at her.
"Can't see home from here," he told her with a giggle. "Too many trees and stuff in the way. You can see from the top of the mountain, though, if Ara-kun lets us go up there. No trees way up there."
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:51 pm
"I wonder if I would be able to see it up there," she murmured softly.
She remembered about the ruins she could not see when she was with Haradhel, because her eye sight was better than Lin's. So... Lin didn't know if this was the same case as well.
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