[Well, if anything is going to get her moving.] Right!
[Time for self-doubt later, Trance. She hurries back up the hill as well as she can, slipping here and there but managing to catch herself now that she knows how treacherous the footing can be.
She knows what the rabbit's foot looks like, of course. She's only seen it practically every day since she met Harper. If she'd known there'd be a quiz, though, she'd have paid better attention all that time.
About halfway up, she slows, scanning back and forth along their path, looking for the necklace or anything it could have gotten caught on. It feels like an eternity but is probably only a few minutes before the glint of something not a plant just barely catches her attention: the metal base of the rabbit's foot.
She stares at it for an embarrassing extra five seconds before lunging to grab it. It's real in her hand, and she clutches it to her chest to keep it safe on the way back down the hill. It doesn't occur to her even once to question how a rabbit's foot is supposed to help. Harper doesn't joke about things like this, not with her. She yells for him when she's still about ten feet up.]
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[Time for self-doubt later, Trance. She hurries back up the hill as well as she can, slipping here and there but managing to catch herself now that she knows how treacherous the footing can be.
She knows what the rabbit's foot looks like, of course. She's only seen it practically every day since she met Harper. If she'd known there'd be a quiz, though, she'd have paid better attention all that time.
About halfway up, she slows, scanning back and forth along their path, looking for the necklace or anything it could have gotten caught on. It feels like an eternity but is probably only a few minutes before the glint of something not a plant just barely catches her attention: the metal base of the rabbit's foot.
She stares at it for an embarrassing extra five seconds before lunging to grab it. It's real in her hand, and she clutches it to her chest to keep it safe on the way back down the hill. It doesn't occur to her even once to question how a rabbit's foot is supposed to help. Harper doesn't joke about things like this, not with her. She yells for him when she's still about ten feet up.]
I found it! I really found it!