Twenty Seventh Guitar Solo - Eddie Riggs [In Person]

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

[What is this?

LAUGHTER, FROM THE TREE? Any passer by who happens to glance up will see a black haired ten year old boy perched on a branch, a grin spread across his features as he tries to climb higher. His worn clothing catching stray leaves, sneakers digging into bark as he grabs onto another branch.]

I wonder if I can get up to the top- [A branch he grabs onto gives a distressing creak]

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[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

[Have a child momentarily letting go of the creaky branch to glance down at Iroh. A very familiar child with a wide grin.]

Hi! [Waveeeeee]

I'm Eddie, Eddie Riggs.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

Eddie?

[He chuckles, unsure of what else to do.]

What happened to you? How'd you get so young?

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

What are you talkin' about? [Confused ten year old is confused, but he pushes onward to grab onto another branch thankfully and hang off of it.] I've always been ten, cept that time when I was nine- or when I was eight or seven.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[This has to be the plot of this week. How odd.]

When I last saw you, you were much older.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

Was I eleven? Cause I really wanna be eleven. [He wrinkles his nose a little, same thoughtful look curling across his much younger features.] Twelve wouldn't be so bad either, then my dad would let me help with the speakers and lightin;.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[He can't help but smile.]

You were much older then eleven or twelve when I saw you. Closer to twenty-five, thirty, I would guess. Still younger than me, though.

You really don't remember?

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

Not unless I missed somethin'. [Now he has to squint a little in thought, wracking his mind.] Like really missed somethin'.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[He smiles again.]

It doesn't matter.

Come on down from there. It doesn't look terribly stable.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

But I just got up this high! [Eddie has to pout at Iroh for his logics, because he wants to keep climbing.]

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[Uncle Iroh understands.]

Just be careful. It's a long way to fall.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

Its not like I haven't fallen out of bigger trees before. It usually only hurts like- the second time I fall. [So not helping his case any. But it does explain the copious bandaids all over him.]

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[Little kids are hardy, and Iroh's sure that young Eddie could bounce back from anything.]

I'm sure it does. But you don't want to hurt at all, do you?

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

Hurtin' is a part of life though. You aren't livin' if you aren't hurtin'. [Probably quoting a roadie his father works with at this point.]

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[How true that is.]

Very profound.

[It seems Eddie had the same worldly wisdom then that he has now.]

All the same, I don't think you'd enjoy it if you fell all the way to the ground.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, fallin' does suck. But usually I get back up. Though my dad gets really, really mad. [Now a leery glance JUST INCASE there is a lurking Riggnarok.] ...If you see him, don't tell him I was climbin' okay?

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

[Iroh smiles.] Don't worry. I won't.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

[Have a sigh of relief.]

Thank you Mister. [He now moves to find a relatively sturdy branch and hang from it. Chattering pretty aimlessly as he does so.] Cause my dad gets really mad when I climb trees, dunno why.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

He's probably worried for your safety. Most parents are concerned about their kids, you know.

[kingroadie.livejournal.com]

But- I'm just climbin' a tree! S'not a big deal.

Dunno why he gets all weird about me talkin' bout climbin' and wantin' to fly.

[ginsengismyfave.livejournal.com]

I am sure he has his reasons. Can you blame your father for being worried?