15) Ice Skating

Roksanni struggled to get her feet underneath her body. It was not easy to do, with knives strapped to her feet. What idiot had designed these damn things? Wouldn't it just be faster to go on foot?

She could see other dextroluma skating down the canals of Solstice, faster than she could imagine moving. If she hadn't slipped multiple times trying to walk on them, there was no way she would be doing this. But she needed to get past the city to get to the port so she could get to one of the continents where there was actual fighting left to do...

She growled as she managed to force herself up, tottering on the skates beneath her feet. Everyone along the canal made it look so easy, just push one foot out behind you, then glide forward with the other one, right?

Her first attempt sent her sprawling facefirst into the ice, much to her frustration. Why was Solstice like this? She'd never needed to be able to ice skate before. Everyone else used roads or snowshoes or sleighs... Not fucking Solstice, though.

She just... had to manage this. She had to get to the port. She would manage it, somehow.

She had to.