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There was little said at first, the only sound being Griff running around and circling Kate with the board.
Tiff stood in a corner talking to the air before pacing. She had a huge duffle bag on her shoulders and the skinniest of winter jerseys, only the fur sticking out the edges kept Kate from calling it a windbreaker.
Tiffany was a difficult one to lock down in the looks department. It wasn't that it looked like she could bench press the both of them. She wasn't broad, there were no scars of a hard life fighting for every scrap. Nothing so dramatic. Everything about how tough Tiff was lay in the neck. If Kate was a stem holding a lollipop, then Griff was a popsicle stick and if a broad woman was a trunk to a leaf, Tiffany was a wrist to a fist, not broad, but super solid. She could have folded Kate like a fat tissue.
Playfighting with Griff had left Kate winded and bruised which was its own humiliation.
Everything about Tiff suggested she was lifting an invisible weight like she'd been fat her whole life and had lost all of it, and it still lingered in her.
Digging into her bag, Tiff wiggled free a wafer-thin board, small wheels of pure black spheres tied to no axle.
What talk she'd been having ended. Leaving Tiff mounting what looked like a twig with skittles as wheels.
She waved before taking off down the street. She kicked up and the board flipped under her, white on silver sneakers, which stomped and slammed it back down.
Griff ran directly to Kate who jumped on their board and they gave chase. To say Tiff was good would have been an understatement. Her aura filled the road as she kicked up snow with her wide swerves.
Enormous, Tiff fee-fi-fo-fummed her way through.
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The base of Tiff's duffel bag unzipped on its own and four bulky drones fell free, buzzing as they formed a wide circle around her head.
Griff kept up as her path straightened at the first intersection. Tiff suddenly swerved into a snowy ramp. She blew right through the fluff where Kate could only guess a door should have been. Tiff kicked off the board and stepped onto a wall with both feet. She was upside down, board in hand before she flipped and touched down onto the pavement's slope which accepted her like a long lost relative.
She was in the middle of the road, rolling right into an intersection.
It wasn't busy, but it'd only take one car.
A trailer truck, two floors high and as dense as a double decker blew past. She vanished only to appear next to it, a hand gripping the rear as it sped through the intersection. Griff didn't hesitate to push the board and give chase. Luckily the dip was on their side but it was duel effort to keep pace before Tiff let go and turned into a driveway without a house, just a ramp and what looked to be open air until she jumped off her board and ran into the air, jumping and vanishing as though it were a cliff. And just like that their friend vanished.
Griff jumped off the board and ran for the edge.
"You've got to see this!" Griff yelled.
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Kate had been left behind with the board and her heart securely lodged in her throat.
Now those words, coming from Griff, could mean a lot of things.
Once, Griff had called her to look at a spider on a window. He didn't want her to even kill it. Just to look. Another when he'd mastered how to do a backflip by kicking off the wall that had left a hundred boot prints on a fresh paint job.
But the one that stuck to her had been a dead bird that'd broken its neck on the window and was in the process of being dragged away by bullet ants.
When Kate finally caught up, she'd not expected her jaw to just slam into the floor.
There was a crater in the earth.
Hundreds of teens moved around and through it, many floating, like an army of ghosts. They were on boards of all kinds, bikes too, some with sails, like flying squirrels, some floating out of sight, down tunnels leading into blackness bellow. It was surreal and chaotic with no one wiped out upon the snowy bowl. It was more than a half pipe with a hole in the middle. It was a massive pool with snowy slopes and that hole was the whole base. There a thousand clear tubas pumping air around the hole down to a parking lot. Each massive tuba led down a different direction.
Griff was smiling, the wise old magic guy stereotype. Like he understood something beyond her. Sadly, there'd be no putting him in his place. Her brain was so blank even an ant was wiser.
Her jaw finally closed, her focus returned.
"It's impossible. I mean it should be." Kate began.
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Kate shut up. Tiffany appeared bouncing up as if shot out cannon to land in front of them.
"How?" Kate began.
Tiff shrugged, pointed down and just jumped back.
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Griff jumped right after, not giving Kate a chance to scream. Instead, Kate came sprinting and dove after her brother. There was an electric tingle as she passed over the ledge like dipping her elbow in icy water. Electricity started at her skull, passing through her neck, her chest, groin, knees and toes.