[ Felix waits, keeping watch at the corner of the alley with one ear cocked in Edelgard's direction, until he hears her boots hit the roof. Good. One last check to make sure the Nuckelavee are still moving down the street with their backs turned, and Felix ducks back into the shadows, scooping the boy up into the crook of one arm.
He follows her path up the crates and onto the balcony ledges, claws scrabbling and digging deep to catch himself. One, two, and then the service ladder.
He's almost to the top when the rusted metal creaks under his weight, an innocuous sound under any other circumstances, but one immediately met by two howling shrieks from the far end of the street and a chorus of pounding hooves.
Well, shit. ]
Get down!
[ Felix doesn't know if these things can climb, or even jump as well as the two of them, but he climbs the last couple of rungs and flings himself onto his side on the rooftop, child clutched to his chest, low enough to stay out of sight. ]
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He follows her path up the crates and onto the balcony ledges, claws scrabbling and digging deep to catch himself. One, two, and then the service ladder.
He's almost to the top when the rusted metal creaks under his weight, an innocuous sound under any other circumstances, but one immediately met by two howling shrieks from the far end of the street and a chorus of pounding hooves.
Well, shit. ]
Get down!
[ Felix doesn't know if these things can climb, or even jump as well as the two of them, but he climbs the last couple of rungs and flings himself onto his side on the rooftop, child clutched to his chest, low enough to stay out of sight. ]