Erika had little idea what she was getting herself into but had a very faint feeling of fright as she noticed the Gibles snap their attention to her. She felt their beady little eyes watch her as she poked the curious enough Gible right back, backing off the moment she saw the Gible she had just poked, try anything. Sure enough the Gible did, but Erika leaned back and threw her arms up. "Whoa! Too slow, Gible!" She jested with teasing laugh.
Erika was grateful that she was naturally pretty agile due to her ice skating practice and quickly got to her feet from her knees to turn away from the charging Gible that was "it". For only a moment, Erika thought she the Gibles understood her and they were now playing tag as she paced across the plateau to it's nearby lateral edge. There was a commotion behind her but she figured that was just the other Gibles running away or cheering on the game. However once Erika went as far as she could go, she turned and saw the horrific sight of the "it" Gible leading the other three Gibles right to her!
"Eep!" Erika shrieked as she juked the leading Gible and began running towards the wall of the mountain, avoiding the cliffside for obvious safety reasons, before turning to run medially towards the center of the plateau again. As she ran, she swung her bag in front of her, hoping the bag or the contents wouldn't spill out. There wasn't actually a lot of room for this type of game, as it turned out. Erika reached the rocky wall rather quickly and had almost no space to maneuver from the pursuing Gibles. Still, she was determined to give these Gibles a challenge... even if this wasn't what she had in mind. She hugged the wall of the mountain, running in a dead heat, even leaping as she saw a Gible get close, hoping to avoid getting poked.
With two of the Gibles moving on, Erika figured she had to come up with her challenge sooner rather than later. Since on her way up she was considering Lesley's advice, she tried thinking of some simple game that she could try out and none were more simple than tag. "Alright friends, how about we play a... no, I challenge you two to a game." Erika corrected herself figuring the wording was important, even if the Gible's couldn't exactly understand the difference.
Erika approached slowly, being careful not to scare off the two Gibles before stopping just out of reach. Gingerly, she offered an outstretched hand, inviting one of the two Gible's to touch her hand. "Touch each other to make a tag, and the last one touched is 'it' and has to tag the others, okay?" Again, Erika wasn't sure if the Gibles understood exactly so if one of the Gibles did touch her hand, she'd touch them right back. Any further attempt for the Gible to touch her, she'd recall her hand and give a nonchalant shrug, trying to express that the challenge was on.