Oh those boots, he missed those.
It's not that he had an obsession with wearng his shoes or that they comforted him or anything.
No, he simply felt that there wasno reason for him to remove them in the first place.
The man should be out training, fighting, and uncovering new moves to help in the fight to become ruler, but instead he was at this strange place where attendants demanded that all footwear be remmoved.
His cold feet just reminded himself that he was wasting time, and Henry still couldn't figure out how he got goaded into this stupid trip.
'Oh, that's right,' Henry thought to himself, 'That Mike heard a girl that he likes to obsess over saying that she was going to a water park with her friends and decided to crash.
And he dragged me along because 'as long as I keep my mouth shut I can be a handsome man'.
What a load.
He wanted to grumble and try again to convince Mike that they shouldn't be here, but the younger boy was already gone, off to search for that girl.
Turns out Henry was too much of a drag to be dragged along any further.
The man sighed, eyeing the large crowd around and trying to figure out just where to go.
His chest tightened with anxiety of being separated from his friend, even if Henry did his best to deny this fact and even crush these emotions.
Try as he might, he didn't want to be left alone.
It was as his thoughts had been heard because just when Henry was turning in the direction he thought Mike had gone in, his ears pricked up at the sound of a familiar voice.
He froze, shoulders tensing and praying to whatever powers that could possibly be prayed to that his ears were mistaken.
But of course they weren't, that woul be way too perfect.
He turned to look for them, and what he saw almost made him laugh.
It was Allen and his friend, and they were hanging out with two girls, one of them being that one that Mike had been talking his ears off.
The other almost warranted their own response of laughter as the man recognized them to be a child, Punky to be exact.
What luck, to run into two groups in such a situation.
'At least they haven't spotted me yet,' Henry thought, slipping through the crowd in the opposite direction.
He was so intent in moving the opposite direction, that he never noticed that he had joined in on one of the rides.
Henry looked up to see what ride it was, and he gulped, eyes widening.
In his eyes, the ride was giant, stretching impossibly high into the sky.
Normally, heights wouldn't be a problem for him being that the man was a wind man and often spent his time high in the sky, but this was diffrent.
This ride was a thin, enclosed tube cork screwing it's way to a long pool at the bottom.
He gulped, and made to turn around and leave, but instead found himself sandwiched between a crowd of muck larger adults and kids, pushing him forward and allowing no escape.
Henry shivered as he was forced to climb higher and higher up the concrete steps and wondered if it would be out of place for him to jump over the rails once he reached the top.
However, it was hard for him to think, and all too soon the man reached the top of the tower.
There was there an attendant there checking heights and Henry wanted to cry with relief knowing he must be too short for this one.
He wasn't the only one who too relief in this.
When the voices picked up, he was dumfounded that Allen and his friend had managed to get ahead of them and had never noticed the others.
"S-Stevie, I don't think I want to go down this slide anymore."
Stevie sighed, Allen, you've been bugging me about this ride all day and we already waited in that long line.
We're going down one way or another.
Look, it's not even that bad.
The slide down is fast, and it's dark so you can't see anything."
"B=but," Allen looked around frantically for excuse, and grinned when he found one, "The sign says that i'm too short, so that means I can't ride it!
That settles it."
Allen turned to walk away, but the attendent's response stopped him short, "Actually, you can go down as long as you're with another rider who is tall enough."
The worker shrugged, his tone of voice hinting this was a regular occurrence for him.
"See?
You can go down no problem.
Now let's get thi over with already."
Stevie reached to grab Allen's hand, the younger boy backed away nervously.
Henry felt a twinge of pity or some other emotion that he couldn't quite place, he shoved aside the few kids standing in front of him so that he could reach the pair.
The man grabbed Allen's hand and moved to drag him away from the whole debacle, scoffing,
"Not even an idiot like you deserves this."
As Henry attempted to get away from the slide entrance, Allen's eye widend and he jerked back in shock.
Allen's mouth opened to say something, but the sudden movement sent Henry off balance sent both of them tumbling over the divider and down the slide.
Shouts could be heard from up top from Stevie who had recognized Henry and the attendent for letting them both down, but it no longer mattred because Henry was no longer listening.
The man's poor mind already blanked as he clung to Allen in fear.
Onlt the thought of, 'why me?' managed to survive.