Steve stops just short, breath coming fast, but not in a heavy fashion. It's almost economical. How much air comes in his nose and goes out it, before he switches to having his mouth open when he stops. If it can be called stopping. When he's not really stop so much as pausing. Gesturing to the side that doesn't have people on it, until around halfway.
Clustered groups of people crossing carefully. Rung to rung on foot and some scooting on their knees or bottoms.
"Watch your footing," which is all laid out flat, when he's striking for it. Careful steps already going from the first three lines. Wooden beams of a bridge, flat and high, instead of just as steps in dug into the mountain side. Where he's calling over his shoulder, looking back at her more than it. "Sometimes the boards get a little loose toward the middles."
It's almost like be careful, but it isn't. Because he doesn't need to tell her that. She's already gotten it by the first time she looked to him for instruction, and because she sensibly trained, like all of them. Not to run head long into disaster. But to survey the situation and take it as best possible, with instruction if it is available. Which is pretty much just that.
Keep your balance. Don't fall. And watch your footing for the loose boards. Especially after a good heavy rain.
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Date: 2013-01-27 04:55 am (UTC)Clustered groups of people crossing carefully. Rung to rung on foot and some scooting on their knees or bottoms.
"Watch your footing," which is all laid out flat, when he's striking for it. Careful steps already going from the first three lines. Wooden beams of a bridge, flat and high, instead of just as steps in dug into the mountain side. Where he's calling over his shoulder, looking back at her more than it. "Sometimes the boards get a little loose toward the middles."
It's almost like be careful, but it isn't. Because he doesn't need to tell her that. She's already gotten it by the first time she looked to him for instruction, and because she sensibly trained, like all of them. Not to run head long into disaster. But to survey the situation and take it as best possible, with instruction if it is available. Which is pretty much just that.
Keep your balance. Don't fall. And watch your footing for the loose boards. Especially after a good heavy rain.