"What exactly would this help involve?"
"Just using your time and essence to operate the ferry construct from the water surface while I work below. It will be completely safe, I promise. Though… getting down to the lake in a reasonable time does require jumping from the cliff."
"Absolutely not."
The scout firmly rejected it in a way that she never would have done months before. Without fear of reprisal for being rude… and even with a sense of 'do your worst' in her heart.
"It's only seventeen hundred feet!"
"Seventeen hundred feet of falling!"
"And I'll be right there to catch you when anything goes wrong."
"WHEN?! Why are you assuming something goes wrong this time!?"
Sevra stared at the small brunette in disbelief. Then narrowed her eyes at the now missing 'innocent' begging..
"There is no universe in which I voluntarily throw myself off a cliff to be part of one of your experiments."
