Climbing Trees? (OPEN)

Terrin slipped out of the house and started running down the plains. She did this every morning, wanting to get away from all of the reality around her. The breeze hit her face and she ran faster. Soon, she made her way to a hill and ran. As she looked to her right, she saw a girl struggling to climb up the trunk of a tree. Terrin shook her head, about to ignore the girl, but then found herself turning in her direction. She had to show this girl how it was done. The girl seemed to sense Terrin coming and put on a bright smile. Terrin didn't smile back. She never did. Instead, she walked over to the tree and said to the girl, "Look, let me show you how this is done." The girl looked older than Terrin, but it didn't intimidate Terrin at all. Terrin had a thirst for showing off. Suddenly, Terrin saw the girl next to her, picking up flowers from the ground. What was that about?

Terrin grabbed a branch and put her feet on the trunk of the tree. She started climbing but immediately fell down to the ground. Well, that was embarassing, she thought to herself. But she didn't make eye contact with the girls. Instead, she jumped back up and attempted to climb the tree again. This time she made it up, grabbing onto the branches without slipping. Soon, she was pretty high. Terrin made her way back down, and then, let her feet land back on the ground. She gave the girls a sly smirk of accomplishment when she hit the ground. "I'm Terrin," she said. "And that's how you climb a tree the right way."

Skye just smiled at the two.
"I've been trying to get on that tree for two years now. No luck" she sighed and turned to Terrin. She had observed how Terrin had climbed up with such ease. Maybe she could try again. She took a deep breath, backed up and took a running start, jumping up and grabbing a sturdy branch. She held on, swinging her feet until she was climbing higher and higher. When she got to the top she smiled down at them
"Finally, I did-" Skye didn't get to finish her sentence as she heard a snap. The branch she had been standing on broke, splinters flying. She fell. Battered by the branches getting in the way of the free fall she landed painfully on the grass.
"Okay, I admit it. I'm an idiot" she muttered. Fresh scrapes and bruises decorated her already sore body.
"At least I did it" standing up slowly and carefully. She guessed she had a twisted ankle. But at least she wasn't dead. It was really just a minor injury.

Laure frowned, but at least this girl achieved something she'd been working on for two years.

"I don't understand," she said as she helped the Skye up, "why learn how to climb trees? If most humans can't do it with ease then don't you think we weren't meant for it?"

Laure nodded at Terrin not minding to take a stop. She really didn't want to go home right now.

"Things happen," Laure said trying to comfort her a little as they walked on.

She still had her flowers in her hand and with the way she was strangling air out of their stems. They wouldn't live long enough to go into her latest flower arrangement so she handed them to Skye when they stopped at Terrin's home.

"Consider it a get well present," she said.