Reliving Classic

Chapter 5: Baby Steps

As the day went on, Retail tried to help out Hilda with her abilities. They are the same person from alternate worlds, after all, so Retail is the best option to assist Hilda. The retail chain worker began with a series of stretches with her arms that extended from the bed to the middle of the room. Retail told Hilda to "relax and don't get stressed", so Hilda tried it out.

Hilda used her left arm to start and she began doing the same thing Retail did: Stretch her arm out to the middle of the room and keep it steady instead of falling on the ground. The first time, it didn't work. Which is expected, so they tried again, and again, and again, and again until Hilda finally managed to get it right. However, after a few seconds of this victory, her arm fell on the ground again.

"No big deal. We can always try again," Retail said.

So they did, and during all of this, Twig managed to wake up and watch the two train throughout the morning. Casually talking about life on both ends of the world while doing so. There was no rush to get things done, it was just peaceful and carefree advice.

Retail had to repeat the same things to Hilda over and over again as she tried to stretch her arm out to the middle and stay up and after a few hours, she got it right. Hilda's arm stayed up instead of falling and Hilda became proud of her accomplishment. "I DID IT!"

"Yeah, you did. Now calm down, cowgirl. That's just the basics on arm movement," Retail mentioned. "Now, see if you can retrieve your arm back without it falling."

Hilda calmed herself and prepared to do what Retail wanted. The girl had the thought in her head along with the physicaities required and at that point, her arm began retrieving itself back into place. After several seconds, it was back to normal and Hilda examined her left arm. "Wow," Hilda said to herself.

"Yeah. Like I said, that's the basics of it. Now it would be cool to see if you could do the same with your legs and your other arm as well."

After Retail said this, the phone in the living room began ringing and Hilda got up from the bed, but then Retail stepped up.

"I got it. We're the same person so they won't know the difference. Besides, you earned a break."

Retail left Hilda, Alfur, and Twig to their own devices to answer the phone and she entered the hallway of the apartment, seeing a phone on the wall near the kitchen. After walking for a bit, Retail picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Retail asked.

"Oh, hi, Hilda," the voice speaking from the phone was Raven Leader.

"Raven Leader?" Retail asked again.

"Yeah. It's me. I heard about what happened and I'm sorry. My condolences. Is this a bad time to call?"

"No, no. What do you need?" Retail asked once more.

"Alright. Well I just came to tell you, if you want to, that the Sparrow Scouts Administration and the Ahlberg Administration have agreed to partner up to bring back the trip. You remember right?"

At that moment, Retail's face became blank.

"What? I...I don't remember much. Tell me about the trip again," Retail carefully asked with a serious face.

"Well, we were going to take the kids to the Huldrawood and camp for a few days, but that attack happened and...well we had to cancel it for some time. I'm sure your mother already told you. But since we're both partnering up to bring both Sparrow Scouts and Ahlberg students together to reconnect, we're doing this for about a week or so."

"What day?" Retail asked.

"I think about...Monday? Today is Saturday in case you didn't know. You interested in going or are you...still recovering...?"