[ Alberto narrows his eyes for half a moment, silent and deliberating, before rolling and closing them with a dismissive shrug, waving a hand at Laphicet. ]
Fine, fine, fine, fine... You win. You're right. It's not worth a favor.
[ He locks eyes with Laphicet momentarily, then that same smug, lazy-lidded smirk returns to his face, and he starts to take a couple steps back as he speaks — worrisome words. ]
...But that doesn't mean it's not still worth the risk! Hah!
[ Aaand as he reaches the edge of the palm, free falls backwards off the hand into the thin air beneath them, as if doing a back flop in the pool, the truest trust fall ever fallen. And, quite to his satisfaction and relief, indeed the Cliff Beast extends another hand to catch him. However, it's only for a slight moment, and it quickly catches on that Alberto is just goofing around, and so spills the boy off itself. But no sooner does the hand give up on him, does a winged yellow tabby cat rush into view on the top of the cliff, and noticeably leaps off the cliff itself just above Alberto far below, but descends into a graceful flight.
It's over Alberto in a flash, and as the boy plummets down with a not-so-delighted scream (okay, it's a real scream, he's finally scared, rightfully so), a translucent, iridescent net of rainbow light, hard enough to break Alberto's fall, soft enough not to hurt him, materializes just above the sand below, and as he crashes down, Alberto bounces right off this magical, ephemeral cushion. It dissolves behind him as he gains his footing, and he spins round just to see the faint sparkly trace of where it once was, baffled and amazed and above all, relieved. The cat lands on the sand soon after, and just sits a distance off, staring at him with narrowed eyes, ears back... He knows that expression from cats. And that's worrisome.
But he feels such a rush from having just survived, that he just spins round to look back up at Laphicet above and throw his arms up wide in triumph, an ear-to-ear grin to match, whooping at his own little unexpected miracle. ]
Ah-hah! Whoo! Oh, mamma mia! Did you see that?! Hah!
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Fine, fine, fine, fine... You win. You're right. It's not worth a favor.
[ He locks eyes with Laphicet momentarily, then that same smug, lazy-lidded smirk returns to his face, and he starts to take a couple steps back as he speaks — worrisome words. ]
...But that doesn't mean it's not still worth the risk! Hah!
[ Aaand as he reaches the edge of the palm, free falls backwards off the hand into the thin air beneath them, as if doing a back flop in the pool, the truest trust fall ever fallen. And, quite to his satisfaction and relief, indeed the Cliff Beast extends another hand to catch him. However, it's only for a slight moment, and it quickly catches on that Alberto is just goofing around, and so spills the boy off itself. But no sooner does the hand give up on him, does a winged yellow tabby cat rush into view on the top of the cliff, and noticeably leaps off the cliff itself just above Alberto far below, but descends into a graceful flight.
It's over Alberto in a flash, and as the boy plummets down with a not-so-delighted scream (okay, it's a real scream, he's finally scared, rightfully so), a translucent, iridescent net of rainbow light, hard enough to break Alberto's fall, soft enough not to hurt him, materializes just above the sand below, and as he crashes down, Alberto bounces right off this magical, ephemeral cushion. It dissolves behind him as he gains his footing, and he spins round just to see the faint sparkly trace of where it once was, baffled and amazed and above all, relieved. The cat lands on the sand soon after, and just sits a distance off, staring at him with narrowed eyes, ears back... He knows that expression from cats. And that's worrisome.
But he feels such a rush from having just survived, that he just spins round to look back up at Laphicet above and throw his arms up wide in triumph, an ear-to-ear grin to match, whooping at his own little unexpected miracle. ]
Ah-hah! Whoo! Oh, mamma mia! Did you see that?! Hah!