(Awesome! Thanks a lot, guys, this is really cool! I think I can also say that you, Gertie, are now my 2nd in command for the European Freedom Fighters thread as well!)
Connie looked up at her friends and brother with an honestly terrified expression on her face, which only worsened as her hair continued to spaz-out. As Dirk lay down at the edge of the walkway on his stomach, reaching down as far as he could to try and help his struggling sibling, Connie felt the old pipe beginning to break away from the wall. Dirk tried desperately to reach her, even going far enough as to crawl under the railing and hang down from the edge completely, wrapping his legs around the bars for anchorage. As Dirk vainly attempted to reach far enough to grab hold of her, Connie tightened her already vice-like grip on her failing handhold. Just as Dirk was about to reach his sister, the pipe snapped in half, with one section staying attached to either wall and the middle of the pipe bending downward sharply. When the pipe broke, Connie lost her grip entirely and began to fall. As she started to drop, she desparately tried to grab the wall itself in front of her, thinking it would do no good. But it did. As her hands hit the wall, her fall stopped dead, leaving her hanging, confused and panicked, on a vertical wall twenty feet off the ground. Somehow, her open palms were gripping the wall's surface prefectly, not letting her fall any farther.
Connie looked up at her friends and brother with an honestly terrified expression on her face, which only worsened as her hair continued to spaz-out. As Dirk lay down at the edge of the walkway on his stomach, reaching down as far as he could to try and help his struggling sibling, Connie felt the old pipe beginning to break away from the wall. Dirk tried desperately to reach her, even going far enough as to crawl under the railing and hang down from the edge completely, wrapping his legs around the bars for anchorage. As Dirk vainly attempted to reach far enough to grab hold of her, Connie tightened her already vice-like grip on her failing handhold. Just as Dirk was about to reach his sister, the pipe snapped in half, with one section staying attached to either wall and the middle of the pipe bending downward sharply. When the pipe broke, Connie lost her grip entirely and began to fall. As she started to drop, she desparately tried to grab the wall itself in front of her, thinking it would do no good. But it did. As her hands hit the wall, her fall stopped dead, leaving her hanging, confused and panicked, on a vertical wall twenty feet off the ground. Somehow, her open palms were gripping the wall's surface prefectly, not letting her fall any farther.
