"I'm back," Nadia called out as soon as she descended down the stairs. She was so eager to return to the proximity of her group that she leaped over the last several stairs only to then use the momentum of her jump to run the last few meters separating her from the group.
"How did it go?" Mathew asked, raising his head as he pushed his upper body off the ground with his hands.
'To think that I would still sit down and do nothing,' he thought, gritting his teeth as he put a neutral expression on his face just in case. 'Well, it might be annoying but I better not make the girls worry,' he thought, doing the bare minimum necessary to showcase his attention without straining his already exhausted body too much.
