[ Yuri mutters it, climbing at pace with Flynn, doing his best to get up higher, higher, climbing steadily and dutifully. They're so close to the top, and the sun is starting to hurt his eyes, and as the sand falls faster, he has a strange feeling, a sick pull in his gut like he's experienced this before, a deep seated, painful guilt that makes him miss a rung.
He's falling again, trying to grab for the ladder, but his head hurts, it hurts so fucking much, his mind trying to find that memory, to find the source of the guilt and hurt, but there's nothing there but searing pain.
He misses the rungs altogether, falling to the sand below, which isn't that far below, close enough that it barely hurts more than falling from standing to the ground. Except that now he's in the sand, and sand is falling down on him, and the mountain of sand is growing, and he doesn't want to die like this. He doesn't want to die like this. He lets out a shout, but that only serves to fill his mouth with sand, and he pushes himself up, fighting desperately against the sand to try and get back to the ladder. ]
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[ Yuri mutters it, climbing at pace with Flynn, doing his best to get up higher, higher, climbing steadily and dutifully. They're so close to the top, and the sun is starting to hurt his eyes, and as the sand falls faster, he has a strange feeling, a sick pull in his gut like he's experienced this before, a deep seated, painful guilt that makes him miss a rung.
He's falling again, trying to grab for the ladder, but his head hurts, it hurts so fucking much, his mind trying to find that memory, to find the source of the guilt and hurt, but there's nothing there but searing pain.
He misses the rungs altogether, falling to the sand below, which isn't that far below, close enough that it barely hurts more than falling from standing to the ground. Except that now he's in the sand, and sand is falling down on him, and the mountain of sand is growing, and he doesn't want to die like this. He doesn't want to die like this. He lets out a shout, but that only serves to fill his mouth with sand, and he pushes himself up, fighting desperately against the sand to try and get back to the ladder. ]