#ᴛᴡᴏ ʟᴀɴᴄᴇꜱ ᴛᴀʟʟ ( a thread )

[ljosalir]

two lances tall

Mission Task Board: Some of the upperclassmen were fooling around and seeing how high they could throw their lances and get them stuck in the wall of the training hall, but now they’re too high to get down. Your best course of action is to throw even more lances up at them in an attempt to knock them loose. Just don’t let them hit you on the way down. [ Grants Lance +1 ]

     Sharena didn’t believe them at first. Well, that would be half of a lie. She wanted to believe them but... the entire thought was just... unusual? Except that doesn’t matter anymore because she’s standing beside a professor and fellow student in front of a wall with...

     “...lances.”

     The professor sighs and walks off, a series of frustrated mutters and exasperated huffs mixing in their voice. Sharena waves them off with a smile but it’s not returned; the professor’s gone within the next moment. The Askran princess swallows her concern and turns back to the cluttered wall. She could count at least seven lances stuck above them.

     An awkward laugh leaves her lips, but too easily that it now sounds more relaxed than she truly feels. “Welp,” she directs her smile at the student beside her, “I guess they had a bit more fun with their training than they were supposed to?”

     Now, the issue was to simply removing the weapons from the wall but... well, she’s short. Clearly. Not as short as most females but she still can’t reach them even if she stood high on her tiptoes--her companion is tall, though. Again, not tall enough to reach the weapons ( not even one of the closer ones... sheesh, these upperclassmen... ) but maybe there was a different approach? Maybe she wishes that her brother was here to help her, instead. He was always the strategic one out of the two of them.

     ( Then again, he was the better one of them two in a lot of things. She didn’t need to be reminded of all his successes. They’re pinned somewhere in the back of her mind, where her trophy case of memories should be. )

     “Should we, uhm--I don’t know. What if we...” and she’s lost for ideas, again.

@exemplaris