( CHAPTER TWO )
Dodges All Heroic Chances, Parkour.

THE NEXT HOUR WAS GOING TO BE one of the worst hours in Charlie's life since the fatal duck accident of 2007. Long story. The boy with the purple shirt had appeared out of nowhere. Just, POOF, and there he was. Already annoying Charlie. Great. He looked confused, and also slightly nervous by the death glare Charlie was throwing at him. The worst part though? Leo and Piper were acting like he'd been there the entire time. Because of course she had to be the only one suffering.

When he seemed to be released from his sudden moment of confusion he pulled away from Piper.

Piper tried to squeeze his hand. "Jason, are you okay?"

Jason. Even his name was annoying.

Jason pulled back his hand seeming to be more confused by the second. "Um, I don't—"

Before Charlie could start yelling at him, Hedge yelled from the front of the bus. " All right, cupcakes, listen up!"

When he stood up one of the students, which Charlie realized quickly was the boy Kyle she'd spent gym class talking with, yelled, "Stand up coach Hedge!"

If she hadn't been so annoyed by Jason's appearance she would've laughed along with the other students. "I heard that!" The coach scanned the bus for the genius.

His eyes fixed on Jason, and somehow, his scowl deepened. His eyes landed on Charlie and he raised his eyebrow while nodding his head to Jason like he was asking 'You know this punk?'. Charlie shrugged with her own scowl. She pointed to Jason behind her and then made an almost poof like movement with her hands. Hedge seemed to get she was as in the dark, and as annoyed by his appearance than he was.

After their silent conversation of shared annoyance Hedge looked away and cleared his throat. "We'll arrive in five minutes! Stay with your partner. Don't lose your worksheet. And if any of you precious little cupcakes causes any trouble on this trip, I will personally send you back to campus the hard way."

He picked up a baseball bat and made like he was hitting a homer.

For a second Charlie considered just pushing someone of the side of the Grand Canyon so she didn't have to deal with this.

From behind her Jason asked, "Can he talk to us that way?"

She shrugged. "Always does. This is the Wilderness School. 'Where kids are the animals.'"

She made it sound like it was a joke the two of them shared.

"This is some kind of mistake," Jason said. "I'm not supposed to be here."

He's self-aware, Charlie thought bitterly.

Leo laughed at Jason's comment, turning around to face him. "Yeah, right, Jason. We've all been framed! I didn't run away six times. Charlie didn't break her teacher's arm. Piper didn't steal a BMW."

Charlie chucked lightly turning to Piper. "You stole a BMW?"

Piper blushed lightly as she looked at Leo. "I didn't steal that car, Leo!"

"Oh, I forgot, Piper. What was your story? You 'talked' the dealer into lending it to you?" He raised his eyebrows at Jason like, Can you believe her?

Charlie perked up completely. "I can't believe you stole a car."

"That's because I didn't!" Piper repeated, she blushed even harder. "He just, you know, gave it to me."

Charlie's hands landed on the back of her chair in excitement. "You convinced someone to give you a car? That's even better!"

"Anyway," Leo said, "I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?"

Jason blinked. "I don't know you."

Leo's grin widened. "Sure, I'm not your best friend, I'm his evil clone."

Charlie's good mood depleted again. Mysterious annoyance appears out of nowhere, doesn't know anyone, and somehow everyone is convinced they know him. This was the work of the Mist, no doubt about it. Whoever did it though, mustn't have cared much about the details of Charlie and coach Hedge. Either it was some amateur work Charlie would've easy been able to see trough, or it was some quick work that needed to stay on the down low. Either way Charlie would've liked to have amnesia as well at this point.

She heard Coach Hedge yell from the front. "Leo Valdez! Problem back there?"

Leo must've noticed Charlie's grumpy mood because after throwing a grin to Jason he gave her a wink. "Watch this, you'll love it." He turned to the front and Charlie followed his gaze curious as to what he was planning. "Sorry, Coach! I was having trouble hearing you. Could you use your megaphone, please?"

Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!"

Even trough everything that was happening Charlie couldn't help, but burst out laughing.

The kids howled, and the coach slammed down the megaphone. "Valdez!"

Piper stifled a laugh. "My god, Leo. How did you do that?"

Leo slipped a tiny Phillips head screwdriver from his sleeve. "I'm a special boy."

Charlie tried to stifle her laughing. "That's what you needed me to distract him for?"

"Guys, seriously," Jason pleaded. "What am I doing here? Where are we going?"

Piper knit her eyebrows. "Jason, are you joking?"

"Aw, yeah, he's joking," Leo said. "He's trying to get me back for that shaving cream on the Jell-O thing, aren't you?"

"No, I think they're serious," Piper said as she tried taking Jason's hand again, but he pulled away from her. A flicker of hurt crossed her eyes and Charlie frowned lightly. The Mist must've made her think her and Jason were a couple.

He turned to Charlie as if she was his last hope. "What about you? You've been glaring at me since I got here-"

"Yeah, what's up with that?" Leo interrupted. "One moment we're debating gorilla arm wrestling and the next you look ready to launch at Jason. I mean I know you don't like him that much, but still."

"Do you know me?" Jason asked.

Jason looked at her with a hopeful look in his eyes. For a second she felt guilty. The next she realized she didn't care. "Yeah, you've been her the whole time, dude." She said forced down her guilt and tried to sound concerned. "Are you sure you're okay? Hedge hit you with his bat or something?"

The look on his face almost made her want to apologize. Piper tried to reach out to him again, but he pulled back."I'm sorry," he said. "I don't—I can't—"

"That's it!" Coach Hedge yelled from the front his face red. "The back row has just volunteered to clean up after lunch!"

The rest of the kids cheered.

"There's a shocker," Leo muttered.

But Piper kept her eyes on Jason, like she couldn't decide whether to be hurt or worried. "Did you hit your head or something? You really don't know who we are?"

Jason shrugged helplessly. "It's worse than that. I don't know who I am."

It got worse. Somehow, it got worse. How did it get worse? This wasn't even going to be the worst part.

The bus dropped them of in front of a big red stucco complex like a museum, just sitting in the middle of nowhere. Of course, with Charlie's luck the museum is in the middle of nowhere. This day was starting to build up to be a horror movie, and as the token blonde girl, Charlie was certain to be the first to die. That was just a fact. Charlie felt the cold wind easily breezing trough her thin shirt, she zipped up her hoodie trying to warm herself up.

"You cold?" The teasing tone of Leo snapped her out of her thoughts about how she was going to make Jason's murder look like an accident.

"No," Charlie lied rubbing her shoulders aggressively. "In fact I have never, in my life, been more wa-" She shuddered as another breeze blew her hair backwards. "Okay, fine. I'm cold."

Leo chuckled before he passed her his sleeveless puffy jacket. She was about to ask him if he wasn't going to be cold, but when another breeze hit them and Leo didn't even flinch she snatched the jacket out of his hands muttering a thanks, and put it onto her leather one.

She snorted at the sight of the puffy sleeveless jacket on her leather one. She popped her collar. "Fashion." She laughed along with Leo as Piper and Jason finally caught up to the two. "Thanks, Valdez."

"So, a crash course for the amnesiac," Leo said

Charlie grinned. "Oh, that is so not the tone of helpfulness."

"We go to the 'Wilderness School'"—Leo made air quotes with his fingers. "Which means we're 'bad kids.' Your family, or the court, or whoever, decided you were too much trouble, so they shipped you off to this lovely prison—sorry, 'boarding school'—in Armpit, Nevada, where you learn valuable nature skills like running ten miles a day through the cacti and weaving daisies into hats! And for a special treat we go on 'educational' field trips with Coach Hedge, who keeps order with a baseball bat. Charlie over here," he started throwing his arm over her shoulder. "Got here today, she punched you during lunch."

Charlie snorted, at least Mist her got to have some fun.

Leo pulled back his arm looking at Jason. "Is it all coming back to you now?"

"No," Jason answered.

Charlie's mouth twitched upwards itching closer towards Jason like a small house cat sneaking towards it's next meal. "Maybe if I punch you it'll help."

Piper smacked her upside down the head, Leo let out a loud laugh, and Jason itched away from her.

When Leo stopped laughing he said, "You're really gonna play this out, huh? Okay, so the three of us started here together this semester. We're totally tight. Charlie, as I said, got here today, and she hates you."

"Whoever did this is good," Charlie muttered silent enough for no one to hear her.

Leo continued, "You do everything I say and give me your dessert and do my chores—"

"Leo!" Piper snapped.

"Fine. Ignore that last part. But we are friends. Well, Piper's a little more than your friend, the last few weeks—"

"Leo, stop it!" Piper's face turned red.

Charlie perked up smiling at Piper. "Oh, really?"

Piper threw her a glare. "You don't start." Her expression turned to worry. "He's got amnesia or something," Piper said. "We've got to tell somebody."

Leo scoffed. "Who, Coach Hedge? He'd try to fix Jason by whacking him upside the head."

Charlie shoved her hands in the pockets of Leo's jacket pulling out what looked like building parts. "Can I do the whacking?"

"No," Piper answered. Charlie pouted, but Piper ignored her and went on. "Leo, Jason needs help," Piper insisted. "He's got a concussion or—"

"Yo, Piper." One of the other guys dropped back to join them as the group was heading into the museum. The new guy wedged himself between Jason and Piper and almost knocked down Leo if Charlie hadn't grabbed onto his arm in time. "Don't talk to these bottom-feeders. You're my partner, remember?"

Charlie gave a silent scoff as she helped Leo steady himself, she looked at the guy and hated him immediately. He carried himself as if he was God's gift to mankind, which sure, Charlie was guilty of doing at times, but this guy was taking it up a notch, in Charlie's opinion way to many. With a superman haircut, a deep tan and teeth so white they could probably blind someone, Charlie thought if he had blonde hair he might have resembled someone she knew, and also hated.

"Go away, Dylan," Piper grumbled. "I didn't ask to work with you."

"Ah, that's no way to be. This is your lucky day!" Dylan hooked his arm through hers and dragged her through the museum entrance. She threw them one last look like, 911.

Charlie scowled, pulled up her sleeves and balled her fist. She'd seen the guy Dylan in school slamming someone's head into their lunch, and if it hadn't been for Hedge threateningly swinging his bat around she'd charged at him then and there. Now however, with coach no where in sight, she wasn't going to let some wannabe jock get away with bothering her new friends. She'd dealt with a lot of bullies in her life, non stupid enough to come at her, but stupid enough to think they could go around acting high and mighty when she was around. Call it some compensation for the fact she couldn't go at it with the gods or whatever, but Charlie hated guys like Dylan, and she wanted nothing less than to pummel their ego into the ground.

She was about to charge at him when Leo grabbed onto her shoulders and pulled her back. "Let me at him, Valdez."

"Don't get me wrong," Leo started rapping his arm around her shoulder, "I've only known you for a day, but well first of all Dylan's twice your size and coach Hedge is itching to whack you upside down the head." He pointed at Hedge who was glaring at her readying his bat, probably aware a demigod like her could easily break a students arm if she wanted to.

Annoyed, Charlie threw a glare at Hedge back before grabbing Leo's hand removing it from over her shoulder and twisting his arm, not enough to hurt him, but enough to make a point, and abruptly let him go so he almost fell in surprise. "Don't tell me what to do."

Leo scrambled up looking at her as if she'd just successfully pulled the bottom piece of one of those jenga towers without it falling down. "You are a terrifying woman," he whispered massaging his shoulder. "Never mind you could definitely take him."

"Thank you," Charlie said. "Also, sorry."

"Don't worry," Leo stood between Jason and Charlie. "I hate that guy though." He offered both Jason and Charlie his arms, like they should go in skipping together. "'I'm Dylan. I'm so cool, I want to date myself, but I can't figure out how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!'"

"Imagine being to most cool person around," Charlie started taking Leo's arm lowering her voice, "not that you would know because it's me, but can you imagine!"

"Leo, Charlie," Jason said, "you're both weird."

"Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes. Come on!"

"Wait, hold that thought," Charlie told the two boys, they both turned to her. "If Jason doesn't remember me, can I reuse all my puns I used during lunch?"

Leo grinned. "Yes."

Charlie threw her fist in the air. At least this disaster had one perk to it. Jason looked as if he regretted being alone with Charlie and Leo but he followed both of them inside the museum.

They walked trough the building, stopping here and there for Coach Hedge to lecture them with his megaphone which alternately made him sound like a Sith Lord or blared out random comments like "The pig says oink." And glared at Charlie every time she snickered.

Leo kept pulling out nuts, bolts, and pipe cleaners from the pockets of his army jacket and putting them together, like he had to keep his hands busy at all times. The jacket seemed to be thin, which must've been why he had been wearing the puffy sleeveless one over it he'd passed to Charlie, yet he didn't seem to be freezing at all. Once in a while he'd ask her to pass a specific nut or bolt that was still in the other jacket.

"You got a hex bolt, it's the one-"

"Complete or half?" Charlie asked picking the ones out from the pile of bolts shed fished out.

Leo looked up at her almost in astonishment. "Complete."

She fished the one out he needed and shoved the rest back in the pockets. "Here." She passed it to him put he still looked at her in surprise. "Used to have a job fixing cars and furniture."

Leo nodded looking slightly intrigued, but went back on building the thing in his hands. She focused back on what was happening around her as she heard a girl speak up. The girls looked to be a group, they were snickering at Piper and Dylan who stood next to her. She guessed they might have been with the popular crowd for the fact they wore pink tops and too much make-up in Charlie's in opinion.

One of them said, "Hey, Piper, does your tribe run this place? Do you get in free if you do a rain dance?"

And she officially didn't like them.

The other girls laughed. Even Dylan seemed to be trying to suppress a smile. Piper's snowboarding jacket sleeves hid her hands, but Charlie didn't need to guess she was making a fist. She felt a scowl come on her face as she looked at the group of girls her own fist tightening.

"My dad's Cherokee," she said. "Not Hualapai. 'Course, you'd need a few brain cells to know the difference, Isabel."

Charlie snorted and Isabel's eyes widened in mock surprise looking like an owl with a makeup addiction."Oh, sorry! Was your mom in this tribe? Oh, that's right. You never knew your mom."

Charlie was ready to charge, but Leo pulled her back against his chest. Piper charged her, but before a fight could start, Coach Hedge barked, "Enough back there! Set a good example or I'll break out my baseball bat!"

The group shuffled on to the next exhibit, but the girls kept calling out little comments to Piper and Charlie was ready to push them of a building.

"Good to be back on the rez?" one asked in a sweet voice.

"Dad's probably too drunk to work," another said with fake sympathy. "That's why she turned klepto."

The group shuffled on to the next exhibit, but the girls kept calling out little comments to Piper. If it hadn't been for both Jason and Leo holding her back by both arms, and the threatening swings Hedge did every time his eyes landed on her.

"Good to be back on the rez?" one asked in a sweet voice.

"Dad's probably too drunk to work," another said with fake sympathy. "That's why she turned klepto."

Charlie tried to run forward, but Jason and Leo pulled her back again. She'd only known Piper for a day, but the girl's were so annoying Charlie didn't know why Hedge hadn't taken the opportunity to whack them upside down the head. Jason probably thought the same as he showed as much anger as her, he'd probably already marched over to them if he wasn't too busy holding Charlie back with Leo.

Leo seemed to take Jason's anger in account too realizing reasoning might work with him. More importantly if Jason let go of Charlie, Leo wouldn't be able to hold her back. "Be cool. Piper doesn't like us fighting her battles. Besides, if those girls found out the truth about her dad, they'd be all bowing down to her and screaming, 'We're not worthy!'"

Charlie frowned slightly, her anger lightened a little making place for curiosity as Leo let go of her arm slowly, but still making sure she wouldn't charge at the girls. She shared a look with Jason who seemed equally confused.

"Why? What about her dad?" he asked.

Leo laughed in disbelief. "You're not kidding? You really don't remember that your girlfriend's dad—"

"Look, I wish I did, but I don't even remember her, much less her dad."

Leo whistled. "Whatever. We have to talk when we get back to the dorm."

They reached the far end of the exhibit hall, where some big glass doors led out to a terrace.

"All right, cupcakes," Coach Hedge announced. "You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, so you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."

Hedge opened up the doors, and they all stepped outside onto the platform. In all honesty Charlie'd been the to Grand Canyon ones already, but that was for demigod business, and of course at the bottom of the Canyon fighting of a horde of Hellhounds which if she looked back on it was about a hundred times less scary than the act of standing where she was right now. They were up so high. Charlie felt if she looked down she'd puke on someone. Was this the height bird's flew at? If this thing gave out how long would it take to hit the ground? Was this thing going to give out? Oh, god, it was going to give out under her own feet wasn't it. This is it, how she dies, she's never-

"Charlie, breaking my hand!" Leo yelped from beside her.

Snapped out of her trance of doom scenarios she realized she'd grabbed for the closest thing to her and tried to crush it. Unfortunately it'd been Leo's hand. "Ah, sorry, sorry," Charlie pulled her hand back. "I just- I'm not- Heights."

"For someone so short you are very strong," Leo noted rubbing his hand, he looked to be fighting a smile.

Charlie shrugged a smile playing on her lips. She glanced behind her to see Kyle waiting for her waving a sheet around in her direction. She faintly remembered pairing up with him before they boarded the bus. She looked to Jason for a second, who looked around in confusion, but astonishment at the sight before him. He looked like a lost puppy and anyone in their right mind would try and help him in this situation. Any good, sensible, and kind person would tell him they didn't remember him, and ease his feelings and discomfort even a little bit.

Bad thing Charlie was none of those.

Turning around she waved goodbye to Leo and Jason before as always running away from her problems. Taking a light jog towards Kyle before clinging onto him as she looked down again she realized what she was doing was a pretty low move. She was a demigod, she was supposed to help people, she had a vague feeling on how Jason got here, and she knew she could explain it to him in a way that didn't make her or him seem crazy. But she was also very tired. It'd been only a few months since everything in the Titan War had gone down, she needed at least one year of peace and quiet before any commitment to saving the world.

"Don't do anything heroic or good," Charlie muttered to herself ignoring Kyle asking what erosion meant. "You don't need any more problems."

She looked up and let out a tired sigh. Above them clouds kept gathering, in hindsight it might not seem like much a problem, but everywhere except for the skywalk the sky was completely clear. That can't be good. Charlie frowned looking towards coach Hedge, he seemed to share her suspicions as he yelled, "All right, cupcakes! We may have to cut this short, so get to work! Remember, complete sentences!"

She answered one of the questions on the sheet Kyle was holding before turning to glance back up at the sky and glaring at it. Her eyes kept landing on Jason and Leo, but she willed herself to look away. Not because she wanted to help him, but because she wanted to stay far away enough to not get involved in any helping sort of business. Charlie's eye sight was pretty bad, but she could make out the golden coin Jason had pulled out from his pocket. She didn't know why he had that on him, part of her was pretty sure it might be a hidden weapon, the other part of her was yelling in annoyance.

Her and Kyle went over the questions easily, apart from a few words he couldn't pronounce, and the fact he looked constipated when he tried to write down long words Charlie said, he turned out be pretty smart himself. They were almost done when she saw Jason march over to Hedge out of the corner of her eye. Her eyes fixated on the mountains in front of her as she ignored Kyle's question on how to spell proterozoic.

She clasped her hands together as Jason reached Hedge. Please don't yell for her, please don't yell for her, please don't-

"Vos! Come here for a second!"

God fucking damn it.

Kyle said something about playing eye of the tiger at her funeral before Charlie marched over to Hedge ready to deck Jason. She saw some students look at her, but the second she threw a glare in their direction it looked like they were ready to pee their pants. The only thing she was supposed to being doing today was go to school, ruin two people's lives, and then go home and rewatch FRIENDS with her mother. That was it. That was supposed to be it. But nothing could ever go right for her, she couldn't get her hopes up for an easy, simple, normal day just ones. No, the universe liked her to suffer. She was going to file another complaint at this point.

Jason had appeared out of nowhere, and when Leo and Piper had said they were his friends she'd thought for a second if she tried hard enough she could easily wiggle her way out of this. Yet here she was, ready to throw him of the skywalk if it meant one day of peace and quiet.

She stopped before Hedge glaring daggers at Jason. "What?"

Jason stepped back slightly, Hedge on the other hand pointed his bat at Jason and asked, "Do you know this guy?"

"If I say yes can I go?" Charlie asked Hedge arms crossed. Hedge warningly swinged his bat. "Fine." She sighed looking Jason up and down muttering a curse in Spanish. "No, I don't know him either."

Jason's eyes widened. "You mean, neither of you know me." Jason frowned. "But you said you knew me on the bus."

"That," Charlie started, "would be called lying." Charlie shoved her hands into Leo's puffy jacket. "It's fun, almost gets you to have one normal day."

Jason was going to say something, but Hedge beat him to it. "Look, kid, I've heard enough about this one-" He pointed at Charlie. "To know that she'd throw you of this skywalk if you were going to make problems." Hedge lifted his bat and pointed it to Jason his voice dropped to a murmur. "You got a powerful way with the Mist, kid, if you can make all these people think they know you; but you can't fool me. I've been smelling monsters for days now-"

"You've been what?" Charlie asked eye twitching. "Please tell me it's him so I can throw him off."

"Your mom told me it'd be better I didn't tell you about it," Hedge said. "Said if you knew you'd break your way out of the school and run fifty miles across a dessert if it kept you from getting involved." He eyes Jason. "I knew we had an infiltrator, but he doesn't smell like a monster. Smells like a half-blood. So—who are you, and where'd you come from?"

"Last words?" Charlie growled before Hedge tried whacking her with his bat missing by a centimeter..

Jason seemed slightly afraid to answer, he also looked like he thought Charlie and Hedge were mad, but he answered, "I don't know who I am. I don't have any memories. You've got to help me."

Coach Hedge studied his face like was trying to read Jason's thoughts.

"Great," Hedge muttered like it was horrible news. "You're being truthful."

Charlie stepped forward raising her fist, Hedge raised his hand. "Not yet, Vos."

"Of course I am! And what was all that about monsters and half-bloods? Are those code words or something?"

Hedge narrowed his eyes. He shared a look with Charlie who just shrugged.

"All I know is he appeared out of nowhere, and he's trouble."

Hedge raised an eyebrow. "You saying trouble as prophecy trouble?"

"I'm saying it as a pissed of girl that wants to throw him of the skywalk."

"Look, kid," Hedge said turning back to Jason, "I don't know who you are. I just know what you are, and it means trouble. I also know that the only thing stopping the angry blonde from doing anything to you is the fact she's just as confused about this as you are. Now I got to protect three of you rather than two, and make sure Vos doesn't kill you. Are you the special package? Is that it?"

Jason frowned. "What are you talking about?"

Charlie frowned as well looking at Hedge. "Special package? You mean that message from An?"

Hedge looked at the storm. Charlie followed his actions and her eye twitched again. The clouds were getting thicker and darker, hovering right over the skywalk.

"This morning," Hedge said, "I got a message from camp. They said an extraction team is on the way. They're coming to pick up a special package, but they wouldn't give me details. I thought to myself, Fine. The two I'm watching are pretty powerful, older than most. I know they're being stalked. I can smell a monster in the group. I figure that's why the camp is suddenly frantic to pick them up, figured Charlie knew and that's why she's here. But then you pop up out of nowhere. So, are you the special package?"

"No, he can't be," Charlie said. "An, would've told me if she were picking up the demigods close to where I was, she'd ask for help, I don't even think she knows I'm here to pick them up myself."

Before she could ask Jason about it thought he stumbled forward. Hedge caught him before he could fall. "Whoa, there, cupcake. You say you got no memories, huh? Fine. I'll just have to watch you, too, until the team gets here. We'll let the director figure things out."

"What director?" Jason said. "What camp?"

Charlie stepped forward helping him stand up again. "You're trying to hard to remember everything, just calm down."

"Yeah, listen to Vos, just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before—"

Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails.

"And you jinxed it," Charlie muttered annoyed.

"I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!"

Charlie grabbed a hold of Jason. "If it turns out this is your fault I swear, I'll give you amnesia myself you-"

"Vos! Now's not the time for threats!" Hedge yelled. "We have to get of the skywalk, you can yell later!"

Charlie let go of Jason with a glare.

"I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind.

"Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't. Come on!"