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[hassaran]

WHO: Tony Stark, Yseult
WHAT: Yseult and Tony test out the next climbing glove prototype
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Nothing worse than heights, but isn't that bad enough?

"What am I doing wrong?"

Yseult's voice is strained but it's just the angle, not at all because she's balancing on her toes and fingertips halfway up the Gallows' exterior wall. She's craning her neck around to try to see Tony, her one free hand mimicking the rolling dragging motion he'd demonstrated. She does it again, and again her palm slides down and off the slick white stones.

"I can feel the spider hide but no magic."

Comments

[propulsion]

Tony is down here, currently thinking about every safety measure that never occurs to him until it's someone else who isn't using any and only ever too late, his arms folded as he peers up through sunglasses that do something to disguise any visible anxiety at watching Yseult cling to the outside wall of the Gallows. There's just a lot of stone out here, you know, no spongy layers.

"You gotta," he says, and then raises a hand to help partially amplify his voice and tries again, "You gotta plant it on there and tug down a little. Like how I showed you. Or is— do you see the lyrium activating? Is it flickering?"

There is no need for emphasis on that word, it's just what happens as your voice gradually increases in volume and urgency.

[hassaran]

The outside wall made sense at the time. The sides of the towers that might overlook a garden are almost polished-sheer, hardly even a fingernail ledge to be found. Still, maybe that would've been a better test. But here they are, and at least Yseult looks steady enough where she is, minus the one hand lifted to again press against the stone. She slaps it this time, and for a second--

"It's flickering," she calls back, "On and off." More than is normally implied by 'flickering', anyway. She plants her hand again, pretty accurately mimicking Tony's demonstration, and this time gets a longer moment of blue. "It was brighter before." She gives it another second, and then rolls her palm free and reaches up again, slaps her palm to stone above her head, and tests its hold before shifting her weight, giving up one of her footholds and pulling upwards.