Oh, great. A meaningful pep-talk for the children, and a guilt-trip for the useless subordinate. This is what's famously known as a lose/lose situation; if he tries, he'll fail. If he doesn't try, either he'll upset the children or he'll be opening himself up for worse teasing and/or mockery later from Break. Okay, whatever. It's just an awkward backflip, Break does it all the time, how hard can it be.
With the children all cheering for him to 'try! just try!' the decision is made pretty easily for him.
Even though Break can't see him, he can hear the grunt of annoyance as he balances once more on his toe, leans back, back, back, stumbles halfway through arching his back - but! - with some sort of luck actually manages to land both of his hands on the ground!
Of course, he hasn't given himself enough leverage to kick his legs over his head, so the minute that he attempts it he simply loses all balance and collapses spine to floor with a very loud and painful sounding oof!.
The children don't seem to mind terribly, though. As Break had just told them all, lots of things are hard, but if you don't try, then you'll never know for sure just what you can do.
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With the children all cheering for him to 'try! just try!' the decision is made pretty easily for him.
Even though Break can't see him, he can hear the grunt of annoyance as he balances once more on his toe, leans back, back, back, stumbles halfway through arching his back - but! - with some sort of luck actually manages to land both of his hands on the ground!
Of course, he hasn't given himself enough leverage to kick his legs over his head, so the minute that he attempts it he simply loses all balance and collapses spine to floor with a very loud and painful sounding oof!.
The children don't seem to mind terribly, though. As Break had just told them all, lots of things are hard, but if you don't try, then you'll never know for sure just what you can do.