“Yeah, I know an alternative route,” said Zorian, pointing towards a nearby park.
Wait, hadn’t he tried that in the first restart and encountered some kind of problem? He was pretty sure he had. What kind of—oh! The bicycle girl. He had totally forgotten about her. Oh well, that wasn’t really a problem. He would just get her bicycle out of the water really quickly and they would be on their way.
Kirielle got unusually quiet when they encountered the little crying girl and hung back while he talked to her. He got the girl’s bike out of the creek with trivial ease, simply placing his hand over the bridge and wiling the bike to rise into his grasp. It took more time to calm the girl down a little and get her to tell him what she was upset about than it did to actually retrieve it. He use
