If there is an activity that is both foolhardy and ill-advised, it’s almost a guarantee Cassian could be found doing it. Of course, when he had set off towards Tephra that morning, he hadn’t realized that this trip would involve such an activity. Still, it would come as no surprise to anyone who knows him, least of all his twin, that this is exactly where he can be found.
Today it happens to be on the auspicious and quite probably dangerous bridge that now exists as the only connection between Tephra and the mainland. If he were anyone else, he would have crossed this bridge with caution and no small amount of relief when he eventually reached the other side. Instead, because this is Cassian we are talking about, he has chosen to stop halfway across in order to peer over the crumbling edge with avid curiosity.
This might not have been so alarming were the water below not filled with the jutting red rock that had once defined Loess’ landscape. The fall would almost certainly kill him.
Though fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, depending on the perspective) for all involved, he wouldn’t stay dead. Still, if he actually put any thought into it, he would realize very quickly he has no desire to be a child at this time. Which, as he stares into the stone-strewn water below from such a precarious precipice, he does finally begin to realize.
It’s that moment however, that he hears his name from a distance. It causes him to startle, which in turn causes the stone beneath his hoof to break off. Heart leaping, he scrambles backwards as it falls into the water below with a distant splash. In his mind, he had just barely managed to save himself from tumbling over the edge of death. In reality however, one stone slipping from beneath one hoof would almost certainly not have meant his end.
Try convincing Cassian of that though.
Moving with sudden alacrity, he jogs to the other side to find his twin, scowl pulling at his lips. “What’d you almost kill me for Casi!?!?”
@Casimira