[He laughs, though, and rakes a hand through his hair, even as he's backing up to size up the distance one last time.]
All right, well. If I die, tell Mom I loved her and all that bullshit.
[He leaves himself a lot of room for a running start, and for good reason; when he takes off running, he's eerily fast — not superhuman, just fast — and as he hits the opening between the guardrail where the bike is resting, it's one foot onto the mechanism that houses the wire, one foot onto the seat of the bike like climbing a set of steps, and then he launches.
Schuldig, it turns out, jumps like a grasshopper, which includes the part where he's about 70% leg. There's a definite arc on his leap, but he's managed to keep most of his momentum going forward instead of up, and as he pulls in his legs he looks like nothing so much as a swimmer about to cannonball, except that he's going sideways.
The good news is, he clears at least two thirds of the gap off that leap.
The bad news is, the gap is three-thirds long.
But there is still a wire there, for all that it's a rickety one, and one singular human is a lot less weight than a bike plus two riders. So as he plummets out of his arc, his legs extend and one foot manages to hit the wire in the center, and with another shove he leaps again.
The good news is, he makes it the last third of the way across the gap!
The bad news is, he misses the opening between the guardrails and sort of spider-monkey lands on one of them, instead.]
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[He laughs, though, and rakes a hand through his hair, even as he's backing up to size up the distance one last time.]
All right, well. If I die, tell Mom I loved her and all that bullshit.
[He leaves himself a lot of room for a running start, and for good reason; when he takes off running, he's eerily fast — not superhuman, just fast — and as he hits the opening between the guardrail where the bike is resting, it's one foot onto the mechanism that houses the wire, one foot onto the seat of the bike like climbing a set of steps, and then he launches.
Schuldig, it turns out, jumps like a grasshopper, which includes the part where he's about 70% leg. There's a definite arc on his leap, but he's managed to keep most of his momentum going forward instead of up, and as he pulls in his legs he looks like nothing so much as a swimmer about to cannonball, except that he's going sideways.
The good news is, he clears at least two thirds of the gap off that leap.
The bad news is, the gap is three-thirds long.
But there is still a wire there, for all that it's a rickety one, and one singular human is a lot less weight than a bike plus two riders. So as he plummets out of his arc, his legs extend and one foot manages to hit the wire in the center, and with another shove he leaps again.
The good news is, he makes it the last third of the way across the gap!
The bad news is, he misses the opening between the guardrails and sort of spider-monkey lands on one of them, instead.]
...Ow.