[hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=b8860b]Keystone[/color][/i][/b][/h1][hr][b][color=b8860b]Location:[/color][/b] Deymin's Tower (2F and descending)
[b][color=b8860b]Interacting With:[/color][/b] His Flagging Sense Of Balance 
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	It wasn't an everyday occurrence for Keystone to get outran by a heavily armored Dwarf. The burly fighter wasn't known for being a spectacular sprinting man, but the longer legs that his height provided generally gave him the advantage over the vertically challenged races. Maybe it was because they were running through uneven stonework. He had grown up in a community that also housed Dwarves, at least a high percentage more than the average Human settlement. Keystone knew that the gruff, bearded race had a connection with the earth and stone, be it worked or natural. Maybe that very connection was in play here, that allowed Nor to blow past him like he was standing still. But he had always felt a connection of sorts, as well. Maybe not on par with Dwarfkind, but he did sometimes feel more comfortable in certain stony surroundings. His blood was that of a common man, likely insulating him from the draw and power of the element of Earth in ways that he could not overcome without magical or divine assistance. Or maybe some other factor was working its factoriness on the situation in ways that he, as merely a stalwart beater of wholesale ass, simply could not comprehend. 

	Be it his place to understand, the fact lay as it was that Nor was able to overtake and pass him down the winding, shivering stair, while he had to struggle to maintain balance in that moment. He had considered placing a hand against the wall to assist in this, but the now fragile nature of the ruined tower made him question the wisdom of such a decision. Falling was not the best option either, to his thinking. A man his size hitting unstable stonework was not the best way to spend his time, and in fact could be the last chunk of time he would spend, period. Keystone was ahead of everyone else, meaning that if he stumbled here, it would hold up everyone else and cost them precious seconds necessary to escape. So the only option left: Regain his balance and try to hoof it yet again. 

	Step One.