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Selkie Peak, Early Thursday Afternoon

There were many different ways to deal with the pollen that was currently saturating the air and driving people to the brink of madness. For Kathy and Edward, today's method involved ropes, complicated knots, and full-body harnesses.

Oh, and also a mountain. Obviously.

Ms. Parker had been happy to ~~handwavily~~ loan the safety equipment necessary for Kathy and Edward to rappel down Selkie peak. And since today was also the lunar New Year, Kathy had made plenty of jeon after class and packed it so they'd have something to eat when they got hungry. She wasn't sure if Edward had ever had any Korean cuisine before, but it was hard to go wrong with veggies and sausage skewered and fried, right?

Kathy bounced a little on her heels, peeking over the edge. If flinging themselves off the side of the peak didn't help them burn through some of this excess energy, maybe they could end their outing with a little freerunning back through town.

[Parker modded with kind permission! Kathy has plans for Edward, but open spot in town is certainly open!]

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Edward tried the edge with his foot, determining how sturdy it was. Seemed like an important thing to know. "Looks well enough from here," he announced, looking to Kathy with a grin.

"Do we want to go down nice and easy the first time?" Kathy asked. "Or just let go and see where it takes us?"

ABOUT THE JUMP. DEFINITELY ASKING ABOUT THE JUMP.

Edward looked down again.

"It won't kill us," he decided. Probably. "Never been much for hedging, myself."

Hedging. With an H. Thank you.

Kathy tried to judge the height, wondering how dangerous it would be if she took her harness off and started bouncing down. There seemed to be a couple of good ledges and outcroppings she could use...

Well, even if she did decide to do that, her first few jumps were going to be in the harness, just to be safe. Not as fun, no, but there was a limit on just how dangerously she wanted to live.

"Just enough to maim us a little," she agreed with a laugh. "You know, I've never been up here before? What a view! I'm pretty sure you can see the whole island from here."

"And the ocean," Edward said. "It's beautiful, I'll give you that."

Of course, Edward was much more interested in looking at a) the cliff or b) Kathy, since he had fond memories of kissing her still. So he was alternating more between those two than the actual view.

"Especially considering we're going to be leaping on down it."

It made sense in his head.

Enh, it made close enough to sense that Kathy was going to go with it. She peeked up at him from under her lashes and gave him a smile. "I think this is the part where we make sure everything's ready for us to get started."

Beat.

"Rappelling."

Where her mind totally was, 100%.

"Let me check your harness?" Edward offered.

Out of the kindness of his heart.

"Please do," Kathy said, out of a sense of safety concern, absolutely. "I can do you when you're done with me."

You know, she just wasn't even going to bother correcting her phrasing anymore. Not even worth it.

"You're more than welcome to," Edward assured her.

He took a step in closer and ran his hands all over the harness. Checking it. Yes.

"Everything seems nice and tight?" she asked, shifting slightly so he could run his hands down her back, too. Err, down the harness on her back, rather. She pulled her hair up a little higher to make sure he could see everything.

If Edward's knuckles brushed slightly-longer-than-briefly along the skin of her neck and shoulders, it was clearly an accident. There was a lot to check!

"Tight as a drum," he said thoughtfully. He wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying so much, no.

Kathy noticed, however. Noticed and shivered at his touch.

"Your turn," she said, turning around to face him, but without stepping away to put more personal space between them. "I should do you now, right?"

"That seems not only fair, but very kind," Edward said, dropping his hands. "Kind of you to worry about my safety, that is."

"Well, I would hate for anything happen to you," Kathy replied, only barely managing to say, 'You' not 'Your body' but the barest margin. Her head was tilted backwards, looking up into his eyes, her hands sliding over his chest.

And there she went, licking her lips again. Kathy, stop that.

Please. Please stop that, Kathy. Pl--

Sigh. There Edward was going, swinging in close to try and kiss her again.

Try? Oh, no worries there, Edward. Kathy was leaning up to meet you halfway there. And did you know that harness straps were great for clinging to? Because they were. Kathy was discovering this quite handily.

He hadn't known, but he was going to make a note of that, now.

Not that Edward was doing any clinging of his own; his hands were sliding into her hair as he deepened the kiss.

Sigh.

You know, this might be awkward in a few days.

This minute, however, it seemed like kissing Edward was the best, most natural thing in the world. With his handsome face and his shaggy blonde hair and his very kissable lips and...

One hand let go of his harness to snake around his back. There was that 'closer' thing she'd been enjoying in the common room and now seemed a great time to explore that again.

Edward had kissed Rapunzel quite a bit a few days ago. That it would be awkward, he was already well aware of. Kathy, at least, he had had little preconceptions about before this happened.

He was happy to accomodate closer, shifting in a little more to cover what distance remained. His tongue flicked out at her lips.

He'd completely forgotten about the jumping. For now.

Kathy's default state was awkward, honestly. It would be hard to look at Edward for awhile and not remember kissing him in very fun and wanton ways.

"Mmm," she murmured, opening her mouth to him. And the next time he moved his tongue away for a moment, she was going to nip at his lower lip.

Kathy had discovered biting and it was amazing.

It was. It was fairly fantastic. Edward let go of a little approving noise and slid his hands down Kathy's back.

His fingers skimmed briefly past the harness. Wait. Hadn't they been about to do something...?

You mean besides more kissing? Probably? There had to be some reason they were outside, rather than cuddled up indoors where there was heat. It was really cold out here. And that made it harder to focus on kissing, unlike back in the common room. A cold gust of wind broke Kathy's concentration, enough that she broke the kiss to shiver.

"Uhhh..." She'd step back and out of his arms in a minute, really. "Errr..."

She'd also be able to form coherent words in a minute, too.

Edward reached up and rubbed at the back of his neck. "Ah," he contributed.

Right. Right. "...so I believe we were about to leap? I believe we're, ah. Secure." Beat. "Thank you."

"Yes!" Kathy said, recovering. "Ahh, you're welcome?" For the checking? Probably? Sure, she was gonna go with that. "And yeah, we should jump. That sounds good. No time like the present, right?"

Before the accidentally started making out again.

"Right," Edward said, turning quickly back towards the edge and taking a few steps towards it. "We've got the rope ready, as well?"

Kathy busied herself checking the equipment, so as not to get distracted by the sight of Edward walking away. "Everything's looking good!" she said, flashing him the V-sign. "I think we're ready for a jump!"

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