slip slidin' away

Venom had plenty of time to turn her thin frame around to watch Chimera and the last leg of his descent. She had a fantastic view of what happened, but couldn’t understand any of it for a long moment. Chimera had tried to stop mid slide, he’d tried very hard to stop for no reason at all. The older girl bound towards his crumpled form where he’d been thrown, mild concern on her features. Mostly she wanted to know what she just saw.

”What in Abraxas name, Chi?” She asked as he righted himself and returned his bicolored eyes to the place his sled had buried into the ground. Then she noticed his expression. ”What was there.” Her question was framed as a statement, because there was no question that the boy was convinced he’d needed to stop for something.