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Ouch!! Why are you angry?!
—And I didn't make any excuses to begin with!!

[He pulls Titus so close, their foreheads nearly touch.]

Listen. You want you and Marga live longer, right? These are just the things you gotta do to make sure of that. So if no one's gonna teach you basic life skills, then I'm gonna do it myself!

Yan Qing...
...
You know basic life skills?

[He picks Titus up like a sack of rice and walks toward the balcony.]

[ he wriggles and kicks!!! ]

Stop! What are you doing?? Where are we going? I can't fly without my wand!!

It'll be fine! You have that shield thingy, doncha? I'll just drop you for a bit and see how you like it...

Then I'll take you down with me! [ he viciously entangles one hand in yan qing's hair! with the other, he...
...well, he can't reach his dick from here, but he grabs his shirt really hard! ]

[please don't grab his dick like that. it is big and many people will miss it.

Anyway, he yelps and starts cursing as he tries to pull them both away from the balcony.]

You idiot! You're gonna kill us both!

[NO NO NO NO WHY ARE THEY SO CLOSE TO THE RAILINGS]

[ YEAH, WHY?? HOW DID THEY POSSIBLY END UP IN THIS SITUATION ]

Then at least you will deserve it!

[ ahhh... they're partway over... the rail...
but it's going to be fine, right??
the parts of them that aren't over the rail are heavy enough to counterbalance them back to safety, right???

with a frightened noise of dismay, titus hides his face against yan qing's back... (if he can't see what's going on, then nothing bad can actually happen, right????) ]

[Yan Qing also makes a frightened noise of dismay, but he's mostly worried about Titus letting go and falling to his doom. Yan Qing is like, a cat. He'll be fine, maybe? If he remembers to catch himself.

It's kind of hard to remember anything right now.

Because they are falling.

Don't worry! They're still at the balcony. They're just hanging from the outside part. Yes, he screamed. But only because Titus was also screaming (probably).]

Well, this is one way to hang out.

[He's dangling from the side with one hand. The other has Titus in tow. Thank you, universe and Yan Qing's stupidly strong arms.]

Titus! Whatever you do, don't let go and don't look down.

Why would I let go??

[ having said that... he does look down. almost immediately.

wow!! they sure are high up! ]

Ah, the balcony from the apartment one level down is right there.

Okay.

[Normally he wouldn't give a heads up, but he likes Titus, so.]

Titus, I'm gonna let go. Don't panic, alright?

Ah... r-right.
Okay... yes, all right...
I just need a moment to prepare first...

[ alright alright alright.
this is gonna be totally safe and easy
so easy, so safe, it's honestly ridiculous how easy and safe

ah his hand is still super tangled up in yan qing's hair. ]

Oh, I need to... your hair...
Don't let go yet!! [ he yelled that more loudly and suddenly than he intended to. but it's not his fault!! he just panicked a little!! ]

[holy fuck don't yell so close to his ear?? he nearly let go that time!]

Aaaaah! Alright, alright, jeez! Not like we're four fingers away from certain doom.

[Where are his limbs? Where are anybody's limbs? All I know is Yan Qing is dangling from a building and it's a miracle no one's reported them yet.]

Take it easy. I've done this before, trust me. I let go, and we land on the balcony. You sure you can't cast magic like this?

Oh!
Oh!!
I thought...
I thought you were going to drop me. Onto the balcony.

[ but instead they're going to drop together!! that's... technically not much better, but it feels a lot better. ]

...No, I can't. My borg is innate, but to cast spells, I need a staff or a wand... something to channel my magoi through.

[He's not going to do that! He knows mages are delicate. If they weren't, they'd kick him aside and tell him they don't need him anymore or something. At least, that's what it seems like in his mind.

Anyway.]

I dunno if I like where this is going.

I definitely can't cast magic with that!

...

I... I am ready. Let go.

[ he's not actually ready but yan qing probably can't hold on forever so he's just going to Not Look and wish for the best ]

[ He lets go, but not in the way Titus expects.

The second he releases Titus, it is upward. He tosses Titus up in the air and lets go a moment after. The view is nice from up there, right? Yan Qing certainly seems to think so, because when Titus lands, it is in Yan Qing's arms. His feet are flat on the balcony. They're safe! And one of them is possibly traumatized, but Yan Qing doesn't seem to mind all that much. Please don't try this at home, kids. ]

Wahahahaha! That was close. Didn't think I could pull it off, but I did it!

[ It also wasn't fucking necessary but here we are. ]

[ he experiences a moment of gut-wrenching mortal terror... an instant frozen in time, with seemingly no beginning or end. (it feels like he probably screamed real loud, but... he can't really be sure...) the sky is down there, the ground is up there, and he's spinning, yet suspended, in motion yet eternally still...

and then, before he even has time to think (and yet after days, months, years might have passed)...

he's safe in yan qing's arms. with solid ground reassuringly close by underneath them.

another instant, eternal second goes by. ]

Yan Qing...

You did it!! We're saved! You are amazing! Incredible! Please don't drop me!

[ of course, he's hugging yan qing tightly enough around the neck and shoulders that dropping might not be possible anyway. he can cling even better than a baby panda. ]

[ He nearly chokes from the lack of oxygen, but that's fine. He is being praised! ]

I'm not gonna drop you! Jeez.

[ Please believe in him. ]

[ But he hears something beyond the balcony doors and sobers up from the adrenaline high, placing a finger near his lips. ]

Shh. We're not safe yet.

[ Because... they're trespassing! ]

[ yan qing's favorite thing to do sometimes seems to be deliberately undermining titus's ability to believe in him!!!! but they'll talk about that later, maybe!!! (anyway he just meant "don't drop me four feet onto the floor," not "don't drop me twenty stories to my death.")

titus does quiet down, but this new wrinkle does nothing to dampen his personal adrenaline high. quite the opposite, in fact. (it's thrilling!! to be sneaking around someplace they're not supposed to be!!)

if yan qing has some sort of plan of his own, titus is all in favor. just in case, though, he glances around the balcony... and catches sight of the most amazing tabletop mini fire pit thing??? omg he totally wants one, he needs to find out where they sell those.

more to the point, though, lying on the patio table next to it is a thin metal poker. it's out of his reach, so titus makes meaningful eye contact with yan qing, then jerks his head toward the poker in a gesture that means if you grab that for me, I can use it as a wand.

but then he maintains the meaningful eye contact, tilts his head toward the doors, and shrugs, in a gesture that means or we could just introduce ourselves and explain what happened. and maybe ask where they got that mini fire bowl thing. ]

[ It is very exciting! He hasn't done a stealth mission since yesterday! Which also raises a lot of questions, as usual, but all will be answered in due time.

Yan Qing narrows his eyes at Titus, tilts his head and shakes in a way that says are you fucking crazy? We can't steal the mini fire bowl thing. Also I saw one at IKEA but I don't know if they have one in that size. So maybe they're lacking in the telepathy department right now, but he sees that poker. If he gets the poker for Titus, maybe Titus can magic them out of sight?

No one can see them now. Before the owner of the apartment passes by, Yan Qing rolls toward the patio table, grabs the poker and gets it to Titus in one fluid motion. Success!

That's when the door opens. ]

Edited 2019-10-25 16:54 (UTC)

[ titus has no idea how yan qing pulled off that move without crushing him or banging his head or foot into anything, and he wants to exclaim about how impressive it was, but

they're being stealthy.

honestly, as much he's sure his downstairs neighbor is perfectly reasonable and friendly, titus would just as soon not get into a whole thing with an NPC right now. so with a swish and flick, he and yan qing are... obscured by a wall of light-refracting water vapor! and then he enchants yan qing with gravity magic and swiftly floats him up off this unknown, alien balcony and back onto the safe balcony of home. ]

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