Laughing, she shakes her head and sets a hand on his arm. "I know that, I've been climbing higher buildings than this since I was twelve." Araceli you say that as if you are so old, you just turned twenty-one, there are people here that could comfortably call you a child to minimal protest. "I don't want my head to split like a ripe melon on the ground."
Not all children are good climbers. And guards….well guards don't care who they shoot at, and if you're shot, and you fall, and you don't hit the water? Not pretty.
"Every day. I get up early and go for a run before most of Skyhold is up, before the summer I would be up before the sun, usually when the watch changes. I take another full circuit just to make the circuit late at night before I go to bed. Unless I have to see someone on the ground, I'm not down there unless I have to be. I can get everywhere I need to be on the walls or the rooftops." It's another advantage actually, in that she tends to know the regular patrols if she really doesn't want to be bothered by them but unless someone new is alarmed by the strange girl popping up (a little scare is good for them) then they don't bother. "It takes time to be able to climb the walls, to be able to trust your body that much, to know what stones will and won't hold you since the battlements proper always have the soldiers or other people. Staring. Moodily. Off into the mountains. You're only meant to stare at the sea like that but then people here have never seen the sea so that's probably why they need to stare at mountains."
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Not all children are good climbers. And guards….well guards don't care who they shoot at, and if you're shot, and you fall, and you don't hit the water? Not pretty.
"Every day. I get up early and go for a run before most of Skyhold is up, before the summer I would be up before the sun, usually when the watch changes. I take another full circuit just to make the circuit late at night before I go to bed. Unless I have to see someone on the ground, I'm not down there unless I have to be. I can get everywhere I need to be on the walls or the rooftops." It's another advantage actually, in that she tends to know the regular patrols if she really doesn't want to be bothered by them but unless someone new is alarmed by the strange girl popping up (a little scare is good for them) then they don't bother. "It takes time to be able to climb the walls, to be able to trust your body that much, to know what stones will and won't hold you since the battlements proper always have the soldiers or other people. Staring. Moodily. Off into the mountains. You're only meant to stare at the sea like that but then people here have never seen the sea so that's probably why they need to stare at mountains."