Jackson had only ever really drifted through the old city at a slow and leisurely pace. When he adventured, he wanted to savor it, take in all the details he possibly could. In that way he had become almost familiar with the way most of these buildings towered over him, made of dense brick and concrete and who knows what else. The foreign lands were slowly becoming less strange to him. He would be able to pick out interesting spots to check out based on what he knew, and what looked odd or intriguing to him.
That said, racing through the city at the pace the boys picked up was a new and interesting experience to him. He never realized just how hard the pavement felt beneath his feet until now, as he pushed himself to try to win the impromptu race. So much different than the soft soils he was used to around home, and even different than the cool, rough stones that made up portions of the Anatheman caverns. Even the buildings seemed different as he ran past them at high speed, blurring as he passed by with one becoming almost indistinguishable from another. Suddenly he wasn’t feeling so confident that he knew the city very well at all.
The two of them pushed themselves for that extra stretch of the race, each eager to steal away the win. Once they’d blown past the small gathering of dark birds, which scattered and cawed at their approach, the race was over. Jackson slowed himself to a halt, a few paces behind Liam. Ah, man, he said, panting to catch his breath. You sure know how to run, eh bro? He found himself grinning despite turning out to be the loser of their little race. It’d been a fun way to get to their destination, what could he say?
He’d nearly forgotten about the gathering of feathered creatures they’d run past. The Acidic glanced over his shoulder to see what they had scattered from. It was a mottled mass of fur, almost like a… raccoon? Jackson scrunched up his nose at the sight of it. Dang, that solved that mystery, huh? Birds are havin’ themselves a corpse party.
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