For a while, AJ sat with him in incredibly awkward silence. She'd crossed her arms over her knees to glare out over the rush of the water, to glare out over the roots of the tree that dangled into the damned drink like it was fresh as new spring flow. She arched her head up towards the over-jutting canopy, glaring up at the thick, ropy vines that seemed to beckon to some kind of Tarzan instinct in her. If she wasn't feeling like so much shit right now, this sort of place looked like it could be fun.
She opened her mouth slowly as she thought, eyes following the path of the vines as they draped and wrapped and disappeared into the jungle. She raked her gaze down to the roots of the tree in the water again, then surged to her feet. "Gotta go," she announced, brazen and immediate and without explanation. She didn't even thank him for the cool patch he'd left, breathing on her in a disgusting but refreshing mist, she just bolted.
If Algidus was willing to hold still for ten minutes, he'd eventually hear something rushing and rattling above him. AJ had managed to shimmy her way up one of the trunks. She was sawing on a vine from high above, maybe forty feet up. When it finally came free, AJ grabbed it before it could swing away and gave it a hefty tug, careful to keep her legs wrapped in a vice-like clamp around the trunk. It snaked down violently until it was completely taut, but that gave it more than enough length to dangle it within reach of Algidus, should he stand and reach. "Grab this!" she hollered down. She couldn't saw the top half open until he had taken the broken end or else she might lose her grip trying to fight that much tension.
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She opened her mouth slowly as she thought, eyes following the path of the vines as they draped and wrapped and disappeared into the jungle. She raked her gaze down to the roots of the tree in the water again, then surged to her feet. "Gotta go," she announced, brazen and immediate and without explanation. She didn't even thank him for the cool patch he'd left, breathing on her in a disgusting but refreshing mist, she just bolted.
If Algidus was willing to hold still for ten minutes, he'd eventually hear something rushing and rattling above him. AJ had managed to shimmy her way up one of the trunks. She was sawing on a vine from high above, maybe forty feet up. When it finally came free, AJ grabbed it before it could swing away and gave it a hefty tug, careful to keep her legs wrapped in a vice-like clamp around the trunk. It snaked down violently until it was completely taut, but that gave it more than enough length to dangle it within reach of Algidus, should he stand and reach. "Grab this!" she hollered down. She couldn't saw the top half open until he had taken the broken end or else she might lose her grip trying to fight that much tension.