Redsand Canyon nimium

Even if Germanicus didn't mean it as such, it felt a little like a rebuke, and Killdeer wilted just a tad, looking over the orderly rows of soldiers with a nod. Okay, he said, and made a note to himself to do just that, the next morning he rose.

Was he even cut out for this shit?

He stared up the wall, looking for places to grasp. Slowly, he began to ascend; and it was slow going, his tubby body struggling for purchase, desperately heaving itself up.

Killdeer eventually made it to the top, but he was trembling and out of breath, each inhale feeling like fire in his lungs.