I13DT: Pruning

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

You'd think mazes would be slightly less challenging when you're seven and a half feet tall, but whelp. Anastasiya had found herself lost for some time.

"Who has been designing this? This is terrible," she groused, marching through.

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[Valdis Hallsdottir]

Valdis was also wandering the maze, looking a bit lost herself.

"Hello? Is someone else there? Oh, good." She walked over to Anastasiya, glancing all around as she did.

"Do you know the way out of here?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"I am afraid to be not knowing this, yes? This maze, she is difficult."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"No kidding. The things these British do with their time, cutting zigs and zags into a field of shrubbery." She shook her head.

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"They said it would be relaxing.

Apparently, they said wrong."

She stretched out a bit.

"I have not seen you around, no?"

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"No, I'm very new here. My name is Valdis Hallsdottir, and you?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"Anastaysia Volkoff, at your service."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"Nice to know I'm not the only one who is apparently far from home." She looks like she's part jötunn. "Can you see clearly over the top of the hedges anywhere in the maze?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"It is difficult--they seem to have people of my height in mind when they constructed this. Is upsetting."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"Indeed." She pressed a fingertip to her lips in contemplation. "Better lost with someone else than alone, I guess. I haven't tried this way yet." She pointed toward a third path leading from the junction, one that neither of them had approached from. "How about we go this way?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"Works for me. THere must be a way out--there was a way in, after all."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"Very true. I just wish that I had started leaving some kind of trail as soon as I walked in." She grabbed a branch from one of the shrub walls and tore it off, then set it down in the middle of the path they were walking in. Considering how well the maze was kept, even that snapped branch stood out as a marker.

"Now we can at least know if we're backtracking or walking in circles. So how long have you been here?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"The maze, or the university?"

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"How about both?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"I first came to the university several months ago, in hopes to start new life.

It only feels like I've been in maze for equally as long."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

Valdis tore off another branch and left it in the middle of their path as they continued on.

"I see. What are you studying?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"I am on a physical education scholarship. So...what is word, chiropractor, yes?"

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"Not sure I have heard of that. What does it involve?"

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"Knowledge of muscles, and of skeleton. Health, and taking care of body."

[Valdis Hallsdottir]

"A lot of biology, then." She dropped another small branch in their path. "If this plan doesn't work soon, I say we force our way out of here."

[Anastasiya Volkoff]

"That would be simple," Anastasiya said, cracking her knuckles.

She definitely looked like she had the muscle for it.