From: Peter Aspinall (writing_rules_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 13:50:18 PDT
“Wonder if she is picking on us?” (contd-“Better and better")
Location: E4
Scene: Outside
Stardate: [2.8]1023.2150
Peter fought back a sigh and tried to keep an eye on what the others were doing, no mean feat when held immobile in a rope trap suspended from a tree.
Mostly they were peering carefully around to spot any more rope traps, but then Peter saw Izzy, she seemed to be just skipping across to a group of trees and Peter was convinced that any moment a trap would catch her, but it never did, she avoided every single one of them to reach a bunch of ropes concealed behind a particularly leafy spread of foliage.
“Wait Izzy” Called Matthew spotting her, “we can’t just cut or untie the rope, I think they would appreciate being lowered rather than dropped.”
Izzy looked back at him and then glanced up at Peter and Aerdan as if she hadn’t thought of what might happen.
“Ok.” She grinned, “Then someone want to come help me?”
Matthew and the others looked at the ground between themselves and Izzy, an area covered in traps that they probably wouldn’t be able to avoid as well.
The few moments they had been waiting convinced them that the traps activating did nothing else other than what they seemed so the group on the ground moved forwards and carefully began to trigger the traps while empty.
There were few problems, other than Urika nearly getting hit with a rock that one trap had flung in to the air on being set off. When they finally got to the trap that Peter and Aerdan were in they paused to see how best to lower them to the ground.
“Guys, can we please hurry up, I’m kind of cramping here, and I don’t think Aerdan is particularly comfortable with my elbow in his neck !”
Matthew worked to restrain his laugh as he got the others to hold the rope with him as he slowly loosened it and began to lower Aerdan and Peter to the ground. It would have been fine if not for the fact that as he stepped forwards with the rope, when the pair of them were somewhat over half way down, and had slipped, losing his grip on the rope. Urika and Izzy of course hadn’t been ready for that and they lost control of the descent and Peter and Aerdan fell the last couple of feet to the ground where they landed with a soft thud.
Matthew raced over to the pair of them, hopping over a rock as he did so.
“Are you ok?”
There was a big of groaning from the pair and Aerdan was rubbing his neck but the two managed to sit up well enough.
“I am going to kill Maddie.” Grumbled Peter.
“You and me both.” Muttered Aerdan.
Matthew helped the pair of them up and then moved off to try and find where they should go next while Peter rubbed the cramp out of his leg.
Matthew once more found one of the invisible rubber walls and as he called the others over suggesting they follow it Peter couldn’t escape the feeling something was really, really wrong, but he couldn’t see or think of anything that was causing the worry.
He found himself once more near the front of the group with Aerdan beside him, he just began to form the through that maybe he shouldn’t do that when something happened to the pair of them as they walked over a patch of ground that Izzy had managed to clear perfectly well.
They were about half way across a relatively clear space when the pair of them just stopped, the others didn’t seem to notice at first until peter shouted them to stop where they were.
It was then Matthew noticed that they were also floating.
“What the...?”
“Its an inertia trap, I don’t know how far the field extends.” For the entire sentence the others watched peter noticing that he was seemingly suspended, immobile but his lips and eyes.
Izzy had stopped and turned out and was looking at them with interest. “Hey they aren’t moving !”
“Of course we aren’t, these traps are gravity manipulations and they literally stop all inertia, it means we have no way of moving ourselves within the field.”
“Do you think Maddie is picking on us in particular?” Grumbled Aerdan.
“It wouldn’t surprise me, that would be just her sense of humour.” Agreed Peter in just a grumpy mood.
Izzy was now bouncing up and down, “Oooh Matthew, I know ! what if we poke them with a really big stick?”
Peter groaned.
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