LUCA AND NAVEEN'S RAD ADVENTURE

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If Naveen took the time to think about it, this man could have been an English soldier himself. Perhaps an assassin. Some sort of kidnapper. Any number of bad men out to grasp what little remained of the Maldonian royal family for themselves.

Any number of threats were possible. But at the sound of a door kicking open, Naveen realized that he didn't have it in him to care. Cautiousness was never his policy, and while the painful memory of his parent's home burning before him was enough to instil a sense of self preservation, the scales were tipped in Luca's favor for the moment.

After all, the man wasn't trying to kill him at this moment. As long as that remained true, the details didn't matter much.

"Ah... it depends what you mean by roof access." Naveen didn't pause to explain himself, motioning for Luca to follow. "Hurry!"

The 'roof access' in question was a single window upstairs, opening out onto the neighbor's roof... provided they could jump the several foot distance.

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Well, close enough, given the circumstances. That jump wasn't looking too promising, though. Even accounting for the height differences between the buildings, it would be a bit of a leap, and without a running start too.

"Please tell me you have a sfeer," Luca said, looking back to Naveen. A sfeer, the ability to extend one's own boundaries and do magic, might be able to help them across. Or, well, it could get Naveen across, at least. Luca would still have to make the jump, but the last thing he needed was the crowned prince dying from a fall while trying to run away from the military.

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The look on Naveen's face answered the question even before he spoke.

"I am sorry, I do not--no, no, I don't." He looked down at the road below, then back to Luca. "But I can throw you. Come!"

He gestured to himself and his larger arms, ready to assist in whatever misguided way he could.

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Luca quickly held up a hand to stop Naveen. "No, no, that is not necessary!" The last thing he needed was to fall and break his neck because he was too much of a wimp to try and jump.

"Here, I will go first," he said, and he climbed up onto the window, stepping just outside of it. Then he used his feet to push off of the side of the building and hope for the best.

Thankfully, most of himself landed on the roof with a dull 'thud', so he only had to scramble to turn and get his legs onto it entirely. Then he stood up, and he held a hand out to Naveen, to hopefully get him to go next. "Come now, I made it across, so surely you can as well."

At that same time, the door to the house Naveen was in was suddenly kicked open. Though they might not be visible from where the men are, a pair of soldiers have entered the house and are searching the first-floor rooms.