IRIS MESSAGE

[jediblack]

[Marek looks irritable, but then that's a normal state for him, really. He's slightly off to the side of the frame and absentmindedly rubbing his left elbow with his right hand.]

You know that game you play when you're a kid where the floor is lava, and you try to jump around on the furniture to avoid getting burnt? Sometimes the climbing wall reminds me of that.

Except, when I was just playing pretend, it wasn't real lava that can burn your flesh off. Which is way more fun than it has any right to be.

Comments

[jediburn]

Loser.

[She's smirking a little. She'd know if he was severely hurt, so she feels comfortable laughing at him for falling.]

[jediblack]

[He didn't fall, asshat. She might not have said it, but he knows what that smirk means. His expression is even grumpier now.]

Oh, shut up.

[jediburn]

[The grump just delights her into a laugh.] It's okay, little brother, everyone falls sometimes.

[jediblack]

[Now he's rolling his eyes.] Wrong on two counts, little sister.

[jediburn]

[Grumpy Marek is so fun.] Oh? Other than your delusion, what am I wrong about, little brother?

[jediblack]

I didn't fall, dumbass. With age comes coordination, but of course you wouldn't know that yet. When you're my age, then you'll understand.

[jediburn]

What did you do, then? [She's 90% sure it's going to be stupider, and therefore better, than falling.]

[jediblack]

I climbed the fucking wall, idiot.

[jediburn]

Oh yeah, good job, the thing we do like every other fucking day. What did you do to your arm?

[jediblack]

Nothing.

You've missed my entire point.

[jediburn]

[Eyeroll.] Okay whatever.

I took over your bed temporarily. [People were getting too close to her and the top bunk is less accessible, until he gets back to act as shield.]

[jediblack]

[A grin.] Because the floor turned to lava?

[jediburn]

[Grinning back:] Yes. That is one hundred percent what happened.

First one to die in the lava is younger.

[jediblack]

Obviously.

You're going down.

[jediburn]

Bring it on, little brother.