Looking up I wasn't too keen on the climb.
"K-Kai, d-do we have to g-go u-up th-there," I asked clinging onto him as he climbed. I hated highs.
"Yes, we do."
I swallowed.
We arrived at a platform with a painted picture of Kai, with a note attached to the corner.
"K-Snake, what's it say?"
"Once they pass, go the second set of platforms, and the one on the right."
"Oh, goodie," I say.
I heard something, and looked over my shoulder to see Booker and Elizabeth in a…. in a hot air balloon?
"See, I told you they'd come," Kai said standing behind the painting.
"No you didn't," I pointed out crossing my arms, and looking over at Elizabeth who was speaking to Booker.
"Right, I was going to tell you they'd come."
"But you didn't."
"But I don't," okay I'm getting confused.
"You sure that's right?"
"I was going to have told you they'd come," he tried to explain.
"No."
"The subjunctive?"
"That's not the subjunctive," I said pointedly.
"I don't think the syntax has been invented yet," he said.
"It would have had to have had been," I said in a riddle. Hoping to confuse him.
"Had to have… had… been? That can't be right," Mission accomplished.
They passed us.