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I'm going to be out of the house for a while. I should be back before it gets too late.

[Nephry set out rather early this morning, actually, headed for the small lake. She's spent a good amount of time being sure that what she's doing is safe and isn't going to result in anything unpleasant. After she's sure of all that, and checks to see if anyone's nearby, she leaves the journal on a cleared spot near the edge of the lake and, slowly at first because it's been a while, heads away on a pair of ice skates]

[[ooc: this is what they do for fun in Keterburg. Feel free to find her, or reply written - she'll reply 'before' the action part happens]]

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[Thinking Anise is just off balance, Nephry will skate calmly by, nearing the finish line herself]

[Anise is stubbornly thinking she can still right herself - and of course that ends spectacularly.]

[With a sharp, alarmed cry, she goes down for the nth time of the afternoon. Though compared to her earlier falls, this one seemed a little more serious.]

[turns around instantly at the sound of that cry and fall - something about it just felt not good. And Anise is flat on the ice, but...]

Are you all right? [she definitely sounds a bit more urgent this time and will be skating over whether Anise likes it or not]

[Flat on the ice and trying to get up, except any movement that her left ankle is making makes her cringe.]

I-I'm okay! [no she's not!]

[stops a short distance away so she can slowly come closer, crouching down to help Anise sit up]

You didn't hit your head, did you? [hard ice is hard]

[shakes her head]

My ankle, though...

...I should have tied both of your skates.

[guilt later. Right now they're sitting in the middle of a frozen lake and that's helping nobody]

I'll help you up, when you're ready.

Boo... I guess I wasn't ready to race you. [She pouts. Good mood gone forever. If anything, it's her pride that's smarting the most, here.]

[In any case, she just nods and starts to try and get up.]

You would have won, if not for this. [gently puts a hand on the offending skate, before standing and helping pull Anise up] I think you were ready.

Just balance on one foot for now. I won't let go, and you shouldn't stand on that ankle if you've hurt it.

[She's pretty unsteady, but leaning on Nephry helps a lot.]

A-ahhhh... [it hurts a lot but she's a soldier! soldiers have had it worse. no complaining here, no.]

[as long as Anise can keep that one foot under her, Nephry can guide them both over to the edge of the lake and help her sit down again]

Are you hurt anywhere else?

[She shakes her head, and does her best to hobble on over back to the lake shore.]

I don't think so, no...

[once Anise is sitting down, Nephry will take her own skates off first, so she can turn and help Anise with hers]

...I've done this many times before, you know. That kind of fall, I mean.

More than once? Really? [gingerly moving that leg - oh ow, okay, that was not a good idea. She winces, and pulls Tokunaga close to herself.]

[nods, with a gentle and a little self-deprecating smile]

Oh, yes, definitely more than once. Usually because I hadn't tied my skates tight enough.

On your first day, too? And I guess I need to tie them better, huh...

Mm... Hey Nephry, does the Colonel know how to skate, too?

You don't grow up in Keterburg without learning how. ...Though I doubt he'd want to show you until he had some time to practice on his own, just in case he's...a little rusty.

[She giggles at that.]

He'd probably complain that he's too old for it, anyway. [also, the image of a figure-skating Colonel is kind of - hilarious. Don't mind her while she giggles to herself over here.]

He's not that much older than I am.

[oh, Jade. And it's less figure skating and more...something to do in all that cold and snow]

You seem like you're feeling better already.

That's true, but he's always saying how much older than everyone else he is. Which is weird, because he sure doesn't act that way!

[She shrugs] It doesn't hurt if I don't move it?

We should get back so you can rest it, then. Do you think you can walk with help?

I think so, but me and Tokunaga'll have to take a few breaks on the way or something. [because obvouisly the only help she needs is from Tokunaga.]

[Nephry looks at Tokunaga, then at Anise]

Oh. ...I hadn't even thought if that. If you think you can manage it, there's no reason to wait here any longer.

[She's a self-sufficient little thing, Nephry.]

I probably can, but it might be kinda slow. Sorry.

There's no need to apologize.

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