You're welcome. [ She gives him a nod, pushing her own short sleeves back in an ultimately pointless gesture gathering her determination. ] I know you'd do the same.
[ Then it's two twiggy kids steadily picking their way upward, Chihiro benefiting from his careful path choosing, it's a matter of time before they reach the semi-steady summit. Chihiro perches at the summit, wedging herself in place to take a look back down the way they'd come. Snippets of the nannybot's calls can still be heard echoing up, but the hiss of sparks and a door further inside the building malfunctioning with a schwoop-CLASH repeating every thirty seconds are more overwhelming. The wall that'd been knocked out by a now collapsed crane created a cascade of rubble both into the building, the way they'd just climbed, and out over the structures on the outside. Scaffolding provides one way of scaling down to their right. Straight ahead it's rubble, rebar and plaster and iron and concrete and plastic mixed in with exposed, ungrounded wires.
She glances down at that massive mess, pressing her lips into a thin line. Time for a consultation. ]
We can get down either climbing there, or by trying to climb down the scaffolding. Which do you want to do?
[ The scaffolding required crossing more of this floor to reach, and couldn't be entirely made out from where they were now. The rubble was a relatively straight shot down, ending near where the crane had collapsed. ]
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[ Then it's two twiggy kids steadily picking their way upward, Chihiro benefiting from his careful path choosing, it's a matter of time before they reach the semi-steady summit. Chihiro perches at the summit, wedging herself in place to take a look back down the way they'd come. Snippets of the nannybot's calls can still be heard echoing up, but the hiss of sparks and a door further inside the building malfunctioning with a schwoop-CLASH repeating every thirty seconds are more overwhelming. The wall that'd been knocked out by a now collapsed crane created a cascade of rubble both into the building, the way they'd just climbed, and out over the structures on the outside. Scaffolding provides one way of scaling down to their right. Straight ahead it's rubble, rebar and plaster and iron and concrete and plastic mixed in with exposed, ungrounded wires.
She glances down at that massive mess, pressing her lips into a thin line. Time for a consultation. ]
We can get down either climbing there, or by trying to climb down the scaffolding. Which do you want to do?
[ The scaffolding required crossing more of this floor to reach, and couldn't be entirely made out from where they were now. The rubble was a relatively straight shot down, ending near where the crane had collapsed. ]