Sotoe had lost himself in his free running and parkour. He would always tell himself he’d do a few tricks before stopping, but this place had so many places to jump off he had been doing parkour for a least thirty minutes. Whenever he got in this state, everything else didn’t matter. He didn’t care if people saw him or recorded him. It was all about the thrill seeking and fun of it all. 

“Nice,” Sotoe said as he examined his handy work.  He had moved a few of the metal tables in place near a wall for his next stunt. He walked backwards and took a deep breath to prepare himself. He then ran at the tables and jumped onto the first one, leaped to the second one and finally climbed the wall.  When he got to the top of the six foot wall he sat perched like a gargoyle and examined his next target. His attention was draw away by a man yelling something. He seemed rather exited to be at the academy, but then again so was Sotoe. 

“Geeze, tell us how you really feel,” Sotoe quietly laughed to himself. He went back to fining his target. His search landed on a large tree in the middle of a court yard. Sotoe smiled before he said, “Target acquired.” Sotoe then leaped down and rolled onto the ground before got back up and walked over to the tree. His walk soon turned into a run before he sprinted towards the tree. In a second he ran up the tree base and grabbed a tree branch and pulled himself up. He did this with little fault that it almost looked like he defied gravity. 

Once a few feet off the ground; Sotoe slowed his pace and carefully climbed the tree, inspecting each branch before climbing onto it. Sotoe learned that when you’re climbing trees. It’s not about speed, but precision. Sotoe found a large branch and to sit on. He quickly climbed up to it and took his seat on top of the branch. There was an opening in the leaves where he could see everything. 

“Man, this is amazing,” Sotoe said with a smile as he sat back and admired the view. This was one of the reasons why Sotoe loved free running and parkour. For views like this made him feel alive. He could sit up here all day and not care.