Alex led Mira along the wall, staying close to its towering edge.
Mira, still curious, kept her focus on the trail ahead, more perplexed by what Alex had in store for her than anything else.
But her mind was also drawing her elsewhere.
If anyone were to observe them right now, she wouldn't know how to hide her face in shame...
A young girl being led by an equally young, but very naked male, down a secluded path...
It would create some very interesting scenarios in even the most innocent of minds...
But all she could do was hope that nobody was bored enough to check the area of the wall they were walking along.
Alex had this look of mischief in his eye, and while she usually enjoyed his schemes, this one was dragging on for a bit too long for her liking.
Then, without warning, Alex stopped.
A small, satisfied smile spread across his face.
"Watch this." he said, without turning back to look at Mira.
Mira raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms as she observed Alex.
"What exactly am I supposed to be watching?"
Instead of answering, Alex closed his eyes.
Mira's face shifted in an instant, but not out of realisation or anything spectacular like that, but out of confusion.
As someone well versed in the spatial element, even more so than Alex, Mira knew exactly what he was up to the instant she felt the energy start to build up around them.
But this time, she was puzzled.
His eyes were closed, and trying to teleport right now seemed foolish.
Still, Alex's confidence remained sky high, so Mira chose to continue standing back and watching.
She could feel the familiar pull of space bending around them, but even then, she still wasn't familiar with what Alex's endgame was.
Before she could question him - or herself - any further, Alex disappeared.
Which was very much to Mira's surprise.
But while she found the whole thing amusing, she was actually impressed with Alex's idea.
It at least saved them a lot of time and embarrassment.
They would have probably made their way over to Rothwind's smithy some time after entering the city anyway, so this just saved them all of the boring time they would have spent in between.
With her face still full of smiles, Mira straightened herself and opened up the door to Rothwind's smithy.
And just like she had expected, the moment she went inside, her ears were met with the fury Rothwind had to offer.
But her smile very quickly faded when she took a look around.
Completely the opposite to her thoughts, the shouting from Rothwind she was hearing earlier was not directed at Alex at all.
But at a... Red Demon?
'What the fuck is going on!?'
Naturally, Mira was utterly confused.
***
Less than a minute earlier.
Everything went according to Alex's plan, and after walking along the edge of the city for the last couple dozen minutes, he had finally picked up on Rothwind's smithy with his spatial perception.
And, just according to his plan to amuse both himself and Mira, he teleported directly inside with his spatial perception, a special surprise that would naturally arouse many questions from Mira when she makes her way into the smithy herself.
But when he closed his eyes and reopened them, his feet didn't touch the cold, concrete floor like he was expecting...
Instead, he landed atop something in a sitting position.
In fact, it felt suspiciously like he was on somebody's shoulders...
He opened his eyes, but...
What he saw made him want to both laugh and cry.
He was in fact sitting on someone's shoulders, but he was the wrong way around.
And his 'little fellow' was getting suspiciously close to the unsuspecting victim's mouth.
However, Alex was much more concerned by the fact that the person he had just landed on was a Red Demon!