Redhawk Caldera Recharge

likewise for me, feel free to progress and pp Aiden <3

They followed Bronco as he started to lead them through the course. Aiden would've been happy enough to have done it blindly with only the instruction, because it seemed just a little too easy to get an explanation like this. He did not remark on it, however, and silently followed, nodding every time Bronco explained something. Go around the tree... Check. Aiden already tried to find the best tree — slimmest, he thought, would be best — and he mentally mapped it for later, when he'd get there in the course. Aiden was almost too caught up in his planning to notice Jay getting teased by Bronco, but it landed a few seconds later and Aiden shoulder-shoved his brother with a teasing grin.

Aiden followed to the obstacle course and again he nodded. Bronco teased him this time, but rather than feeling teased, Aiden easily picked it up as a sort-of-compliment with Sorana's added words. He looked at her with a grin on his face and said, Don't wanna make it too easy for those behind me by clearing the trees off the path.

Bronco showed them the rest of the course and then finally it was time to start! Aiden felt energy brimming and his muscles were tense as he made his way to the start of the course. He frowned with concentration, making him look rather glum and dangerous (a thing he himself was totally unaware of).

As the GO! sounded, Aiden came into motion. He, too, actually tried to go as fast as he could so that he could reach the tree he had chosen fast enough. However, Sorana was a bit faster than him so Aiden wasn't first to reach the trees. By the time that he did reach the trees, "his" tree was thankfully still clear. He quickly started to circle, but he was a bit slower than the others; the tree might be slim, but Aiden himself was broad and so moving around the tree was a clunky process. Besides, Bridget was there which made him fumble a little and made his concentration waver!

By the time they reached the obstacle course, Aiden was the last one, but at least he had his concentration back now that Bridget was out of the picture and Aiden intended to overtake Sorana and Jay quickly in the in-between-obstacles so that he would be up front by the time that they reached the field. Or if that didn't work, well, he'd just run and catch up on the field. He knew that he would be good at the not-touching-the-ground-bit, even if he wasn't the best at all this agility stuff. Aiden totally banked on Jay not having the concentration to pull that off, so he saw Sorana as his biggest adversary in the race.