[Open] Rise Up, Rise Up.

[the_effect_she_has]

WHO: Katniss Everdeen and Yours
WHAT: Falling, and climbing back up again. In many ways
WHEN: Rest of Wintermarch
WHERE: The stables, the ramparts, the staircases, the healing tents.
NOTES: It's Katniss. You know there's going to be something.

Katniss has been taking all her lessons seriously, but the ones she had been working on most were the rogue lessons - lessons in climbing and sneaking in and out of places. Knife throwing into all kinds of targets. Climbing up and down buildings, and quite literally falling off of them.

No one was quite sure what she was training so hard for -- but then most of them had not been to the Emprise du Lion. They had not seen the cages. Katniss was not going to throw away their only chance to save those people, so whatever she needed to know? She would do.

So don't be surprised if she drops in on you, as she falls back into piles of hay or down in a leap.

Comments

Re: IDK Somewhere outside where she's falling off stuff.

[the_effect_she_has]

Katniss had let out her breath, and let herself fall back. She was lying on the hay, catching that said breath again when she heard the female voice and jerked herself up to a seated position.

She blinked at the other woman, before her mouth twitched, "I'm trying to learn how to fall when I don't intend to. You know, getting thrown out of a window or something. So I don't break my neck."

Pause. "Kitten?"

[easternseaqueen]

"Cats land on their feet, usually."

She eyed the girl.
"Look, you're one of Zev's learners, aren't you? He first taught me a thing or two, and then I made the teachings even better. And you don't want to know how many things I've been thrown out of."

[the_effect_she_has]

"Oh, am I a cat now?"

Amusement flickers through grey eyes, but then comes that intent focus. "I am. And if you can teach me to fall to land on my feet, you can call me Cat all you want."

[easternseaqueen]

"Better a cat than some things."

She gives the younger girl another once-over.
"I'll start by warning you that there will be times you don't want to land on your feet. Not if you like your legs unbroken, anyway. And never assume your landing will be soft. Better to assume you're about to crash into rock. But most important to landing on your feet? Always make sure you can tell which way is up, and always be on top. Think you can handle that to start?"

[the_effect_she_has]

"...Fair, and I've been called a lot of them."

She pressed her lips together, considering what the woman had said. So falling was ... like everything else. Keep your wits about you, at all times. She nodded her head, once. "Yeah. I can handle that."

[easternseaqueen]

"Good. You also need to know where your center of gravity is. Where are your balance points?" she asked. "If you don't know, you're definitely not going to land or stay on your feet."

[the_effect_she_has]

Katniss immediately put her hands down to her hips, then gestured down to her feet. "There, and down there."

[easternseaqueen]

"Good. Now, it's also good to know how to position yourself for how you need to fall. If you need to slow yourself down, spread out and make resistance. Need to go faster, and make yourself cut through the air," Isabela instructed. "Care to give it another go?"

[the_effect_she_has]

She looked thoughtful at that, nodding her head slowly as she imagined it. Fall faster, pull yourself in. Fall slower, spread yourself out. "Like a bird taking flight - yes ... Yes."

She turned to the wall, and started to climb up it, looking for the spaces inbetween as Ara had taught her.

[easternseaqueen]

"Not bad, Kitten, not bad," Isabela said, watching her fall again. "And... do you know how to fall for when you're not landing on your feet?"

[the_effect_she_has]

Katniss stood up,, breathing deep as she brushed the straw out of her hair. She bit her lip thoughtfully, before she flashed Isabella a small smirk before she started to climb upwards once more.

This time she dropped again from the wall again, this time spreading her body wide to fall in a way that if she wasn't going to fall on her feet, she wasn't going to break her fool neck either.

[easternseaqueen]

"That's a girl. Try to make it so you'll land on whatever's fleshiest. Cushions the blow a bit."

The pirate laughed.
"I bet you could use a drink after all that."

[the_effect_she_has]

"... I am not entirely sure I have anything that is fleshy." She stated as she pushed herself upright and shook the straw out of her hair, again.

"I can use a cider, definitely." She said slowly, before her lips twitch up. "I bet you could use one too."

[easternseaqueen]

"As long as it's stiff. I really should have my boys send in more of the good stuff."

She led the younger girl to the tavern.
"On me today. Just a cider for you, you said?"

[the_effect_she_has]

"Well, then one stiff drink for you, one delicious apple created one for me." She followed Isabela into the tavern, and nodded her head. "I don't like to be drunk. Dulls the senses."

[easternseaqueen]

"Well, there is that one lovely sweet spot between true drunkenness and things getting just so... Mm. Better than you might think. But it's true, I know there are times when I have to limit my men if I need them sober."

She grins.
"You know, there is such a thing as hard cider. You should taste it sometime."

[the_effect_she_has]

Katniss looked at her with a wry eyebrow raised up. "Yeah, there's also a fine line between happiness and puking all over your own clothes."

A pause, before she gave Isabela a strange look. "What's hard cider?"

[easternseaqueen]

"You've never heard of it? Well, it's like normal cider... just left to sit a while until it... hmm. Hardens up, so to speak? Gives it a nice kick, but if you're not used to it, go slowly," she laughs.

[the_effect_she_has]

"Ah." One corner of Katniss's mouth twisted slightly, "In the country we just call that cider."