Chapter 242: Surprise Attack part 2
When Jonas had called out for them to run, Kim was immediately on alert. She'd been suspicious when he seemed on alert about something, when there didn't seem to be anything out of place. When he let her know that he'd tell her later, she was fine with it, but that didn't put her at ease.
When he called out for them to run, she picked up her pace, but was surprised at how slow Elin and Elmo were. Naturally, they couldn't break out into a full out sprint, given the bridge they were on wasn't wide enough to make that safe, especially with the loose rocks and how slippery some had been up to this point.
Then when the bridge was destroyed, she felt more alarm than she had experienced since they'd been getting overrun by the goblins when they were seeking to close the portal. Which somehow felt like years ago rather than merely a little over a month ago.
When the bridge crumbled, Kim felt her heart skip a beat until she could be certain that Elin was on the part of the bridge that wasn't breaking up, though she did feel a twinge of annoyance that Elmo wasn't falling either. However, she turned to look for Jonas and felt her entire frame go cold as she saw Jonas starting to fall.
She could not say what the reason for that was, only that it almost felt like she couldn't afford to lose Jonas, even though she couldn't say why. Only that it felt like if he did fall, that something lost might never be found again, which made her wonder if there might be something about Jonas that she hadn't even thought. Such as why she trusted him so readily when she still had doubts about Elmo. Not that she thought she was wrong about Elmo.
She felt Jonas' weight threatening to pull her off the edge o the broken bridge as she caught him before she was even aware that she'd reached out to catch him. She'd let herself to be pulled to her knees, which allowed her more stability to keep from having Jonas essentially pull her off with him.
When she was confident that the inertia pulling her after Jonas had been taken care of, she then let out a breath of relief before starting to pull Jonas up carefully, so as to keep from slipping and either falling herself or just dropping him without meaning to.
As he reached the level of the bridge that Kim was, he was able to help pull himself up and allow Kim to let go of him while he secured himself on the remaining portion of the bridge.
"What the hell was that?" Kim demanded as she moved back to give Jonas enough room to fully climb onto the stone.
"I'm not sure what it exactly was, but it did cast a shadow but wasn't otherwise visible where we could see it," Jonas answered as he finished climbing onto the now stone ledge.
"So it might be what we saw earlier," Kim concluded, somehow feeling vindicated about that fact, even though she couldn't say why she should feel that way.