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she’s never been to london, so this should be fun. first things first, she has to get there. she decides it’s faster to swim than to travel by bus, so that’s what she does. it’s not until she’s standing at the bottom of the clock tower that she starts streaming. “ hey, watchers, thanks for giving me motivation to go and see something new. i made it to london, which is pretty cool actually, and i’m here looking at this clock that must be 300 feet tall or something. that’s intense. i’m really excited. ” she shows them the whole tower.
“ first, i gotta get inside, i think i’m gonna need both my hands for that. ” lucky for her, she came prepared and easily slots her phone, camera forwards, into the front pocket on the teal overalls she’s wearing. purple mesh underneath. that way, it can catch all the action.
it’s not that hard to dodge the guards, really. or get inside the tower itself. she tilts up to peer up the darkened stairs. “ that’s gotta be ten flights of stairs. guess you wanna make sure i don’t skip leg day. ” truthfully, her arm muscles are better than her legs. they’ve just never been as good. but that doesn’t mean they’re terrible, they’re just not great. and even with superior strength, eleven flights of stairs is more than enough. maybe swimming all the way from auradon hadn’t been such a good idea.
the room at the top is undeniably beautiful, though. the mechanisms intricate and huge and she takes her time exploring thoroughly before she finally makes it to the small window in the clock front and opens it. “ look at that view, guys, ” she tells her watchers, a little glad that they can only see the view and not the pure joy in her eyes at seeing something so new and exciting. that moment is for her and her alone.
london sprawls out beneath her, beneath the tower, and it is beautiful. or as beautiful as a city can be. “ pretty cool, huh? ” she says after a long moment of staring. “ alright, let’s do this. ” she wiggles her way through the window, out onto the clock face itself. it’s thirteen minutes past four and that gives her the perfect leverage to reach up and grab the hour hand, and use that to drag herself up onto the almost flat minute hand.
or at least, that’s the plan. as she grabs the minute hand, the entire thing moves- ticking forwards a minute, as clocks are meant to do, and the whole thing jerks, including uma’s grip. her hand slips and she finds herself dangling 300 feet above london by only one hand. “ woah! ” she can practically hear the chat going wild- and she can even see people on the street and the bridge pointing their phones up at her. naturally. she makes a second, desperate grab for the hand, her entire body swinging precariously- and this time it sticks.
she makes a note that maybe next time she has to be up this high she uses her extra limbs to counterbalance. but that does take some of the fun out of it. arms trembling with adrenaline and the effort of holding her weight, she pulls herself up onto the hand, sitting on the edge and giving a casual wave to everyone down below as if she hadn’t just nearly died. she takes her phone out to turn it back to herself. “ that was a close one, watchers. hope you enjoyed that. now i just gotta stand up. ” she grins and tucks the phone away again. another minute ticks, but this time she’s ready for it, position settled so that as the hand flattens out, she’s ready to jump to her feet. she stands, feet balanced precariously on the edge of the minute hand- and triumphantly she throws her arms into the air, whooping loudly.
more people are taking pictures now, or videos and not all of them are watchers. but what does she care? she’s got the wind in her hair and an amazing view. she counts to thirty, and then quickly drops back down to sitting, and then to dangling, until she can slide down the hour hand, back to the bottom of the clock face and then back through the window.
her hearts are pounding. she retrieves her phone and grins at the screen. “ that was so much fun, if you wanna see more like that, just send them in. let’s see how high we can get, huh? ” she blows a quick kiss- and then hurries down the stairs. time to find a way out of here without getting caught by the guards who are on their way up.