A New Cause
Manar just barely touched the bar that hung over the bottomless pit before them. The boy would have fallen to his death then and there had the Prince not rewound time. Everything stopped, then the gasp that escaped Halice flowed back into her lungs, and Manar moved back toward the ledge. He landed, walking backward to where he was standing. And then, time resumed as it was. Manar, being at the start of his first run, stopped dead. Is that what rewinding feels like? He didn't quite enjoy the feeling, but it wasn't bad. Halice, on the other hand, didn't care, since he wasn't dead.
"Are you mad?! You could have died!" she yelled. Her brother was only thing that tied her to home at that point. If he died, she might have not been able to move on with the fight. With a sigh, the female twin regained herself. "Don't do that to me, Manar." Manar nodded, a little shocked. She was right. It wasn't like back home when he would try to do what he had heard about. There, he would just get a scrap or a bruise if he failed. Here, one screw up and you could be gone for good. He nodded again, more vigorously, and Halice backed off.
Now he was sure of it. These two defiantly were strange. He was not objecting, however, since it was not his place to dictate how the future should have been for them. "Any road, we really do need to get moving. You did alert Farah when you noticed the Sand Monsters, yes?"
"No, they let her sit there while they were gaping out the window." Dark Halice's voice was saturated in loathable sarcasm. But, she was right, or the point she was making was.
"Yes, we did let Farah know. In fact, she was the first person we told." Manar assured. Good, then she is likely still alive and safe. The Prince smiled to himself at the thought, then looked to the bar. From the looks of it, it use to hold up an old overhang. It seemed strong even to hold some swinging from his fairly heavy body.
"Okay, watch me. You'll need to know this if all of us are to escape." the Prince said. Without a moments delay, he jumped off the very end of the edge. Instead of having his hands ready to grab the bar like Manar had, which shortened the length of his jump, but back. Just as he got close to the pole, the Prince grabbed it, his momentum throwing his into a swing. Going over the bar over, the royal let go, flying toward the other side. He landed and turned to the twins.
While the Prince could do it without a fault, his demonstration did little for Manar or Halice's confidence. Manar wished to try again anyway, and made it across, mostly by copying the Prince. Halice, though, simply stood there, mortified. "I'm going to kill myself." She muttered, and jumped. Up until the spinning part, she did okay. When she grabbed the bar, though, she stopped, landing ontop of the bar. This slightly impressed the Prince, since most needed to be taught how to stand on bars. "Good, now, you can jumped from there." he called to her, but she shook her head. Great, this was going to be difficult. "I can rewind time if you fall."
"That doesn't stop me from falling!"
"Just jump."
"Stay out of it, Manar!" Halice yelled. Then, there was a low moan-like sound, and Halice panicked. The wood was breaking, even over her weight. Looks like it had all the use it could take. Almost like frog, she leaped from the bar right before it snapped in two. She landed on her hands and feet, looking little more like a human cat. Unlike her brother, Halice was highly intolerant to things that could kill her. "Please tell me we don't here to do much more of this." she pleaded.
"We are close to the surface. It should not take long to get there, if that is good enough."
"I guess it will have to do."