week two | dates

[showhost]

You worked up your courage and asked someone out on a date! Good job!





Now you have to hope the producers are kind re: where they send you.

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[ He shoots her an encouraging smile right back, and waits for her to step onto the bridge. Mark wants to make sure she's at least got her footing first before he joins her to cause more chaos, but her tensing has him tensing, ready to spring into action just in case.

So he puffs out a little exhale when it passes, too. And, still smiling should she look back, ] That's the fun of it, isn't it? Just having something sway underneath you...

[ It's pretty simple, he thought. He'd have thought there'd be worse up ahead, but maybe it's better to not speak that into existence? Anyway. ]

I'm stepping on, so don't worry if the bridge starts moving again or something. I'm right behind you... [ trying to be smooth... ] and if it moves too much, I've still got you.

[rosethorns]

[Right. This would be just like crossing that first section, except… a little less steady. Requiring a little more balance. It would be fine.]

Alright.

[There’s the quickest of glances back Mark’s way and she summons her best determined smile right back. Then she tries to keep moving forward, holding onto that momentum. And it goes fine, at first. But then she takes a step just as Mark makes his first step onto the bridge, and the way it sways nearly causes her foot to slip right off the rope.

She’s moving a bit too quickly to right herself—her forward progress comes to a halt, and she’s gripping onto that guiding rope for dear life as the bridge sways unsteadily. With a shaky exhale of a laugh:]

Perhaps we should try to move in sync…?