the deck | late morning | sunday | april 25

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Staying inside was for lazy grown ups who only wanted to watch boring television. If it wasn't cartoons or something going boom, Hannibal didn't want to be there. He, instead, wanted to be outside. The deck proved the best sort of place for an energetic youngster because there were things to climb on and hide under and jump off of! So, of course, that's what he was doing. Who thinks about the possibility of getting hurt when they're having fun?

Currently, Hannibal was standing on one of the tables, arms thrust into the air and voice loud enough to carry while he proclaimed himself the most awesome person in the world. His world view was quite small and quite egocentric so he thought he was pretty right.

When he jumped off the table, he couldn't quite stick the landing and ended up rolling onto his back. He meant to do that though. Totally.

[open deck, yep!]

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"You flew real good!" Clark enthused, having decided the tops of tables wasn't too high to be scary. "Wanna go again?"

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"Yeah!" Hannibal nodded, already heading to top of the table. "Wanna come too? We can fly together! You can see the whole world from up here!"

That still wasn't true.

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Clark didn't need an invite to clamber after Hannibal onto the table. "Wow! I see the lawn!" Since it was just over there. Yeah.

"Think we can see Kansas?"

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Hannibal didn't exactly know but he wasn't gonna say that. "Yeah. It's over there!" And he pointed up at the sun. "We gotta squint though cuz it's far away!"

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Shielding his eyes with one hand, Clark looked up toward the sun. "Too bad we can't fly there."

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That was a dilemma. "What if we stacked chairs on the table and tried to jump to the sun?"

That was an excellent idea. Excellent.

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"YES!" Clark leaped off the table with a thud and ran off to return with a a massive stack of chairs that he lifted onto the table with one hand.

Good thing mom wasn't there to tell him one at a time. "Think it's enough?"

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"Wow, you're strong," Hannibal said, gaping. The chairs were momentarily forgotten because Clark was strong. "I think it's enough. Help me stack 'em!"

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"Just gotta climb 'em now!" Clark grinned, jumping back up on the table with the pile of chairs.

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Those chairs were pretty high. Hannibal chewed on his lip. "You go first and then I'll follow."

Yep, trying to prevent his death from happening first.

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Clark nodded once and climbed waaaaaaay up onto the chair, heart pounding at the view of the ground below him, but there was just no way he was going to admit he was scared.

Reaching the top he looked at Hannibal with wide eyes. "I did it!" And then lifted his arms in victory.

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"You're really high!" Hannibal said, shading his eyes to peer up. "Can you see Kansas?"

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Clark couldn't see much more than he saw before. "I sure can! I think there's CORN!" Because that was a sign, yes.

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"Corn!" Hannibal wanted to see now. "Hold still, I'm coming up!"

Yep, he was going to try and climb the stack of chairs that Clark was balancing on. Because he was smart.

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Clark had never tripped for even a second before. Hannibal climbing on the chairs just meant he worked harder to hold his balance. "I'm never going down! This is awesome!"

Also, down was mildly frightening.

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"Okay!" Hannibal concentrated on climbing, one foot and one hand in front of the other. Amazingly, he made it to the top and clambered up on the chairs beside Clark.

"Wow!" It was really high! To him, at least. Really high. "I can see other planets from here! And corn too."

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"Where are the planets?" Clark asked, not seeing any, but then he remembered their game. "OH OH, like VENUS!"

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"Yeah!" Hannibal nodded excitedly. "And Mars! Mars is red, I seen it before. It's big and red and hot. One day, I'ma fly there and live there!"