ROUND THREE: BALANCING ACT

you gotta tip on the tightrope

Alright, so the Round Three prompt is up and above! Our Round Two entry was, as everyone can admit, totally badass. And I am pretty hellbent on doing just as well, if not better this time!
Anyways, I've come up with a possible idea to make this round slightly more fun.

The idea I had, essentially, was to split our team up into two separate branches, and have them each work on one half (1500 word fic, 2 images) with one set prompt. Using the list in the Great Post of Tumblrs, I stuck a RNG into it and got the following:

BRANCH ONE: dejup, Alymira, abominablebebop, emmajb
BRANCH TWO: pyrokineticvampire, paradigm, imuddyr, moronicat

The prompt, if we go along with this, would be DERSE.

Branches are not allowed to communicate with each other regarding Round 3. Please keep as close to the 1500, 2 image limit as possible, since the idea is to have our separate parts be balanced together! Recent updates should leave us with a LOT to work with, after all.

If this is, for any reason, not okay with you please comment or let me know!!
Good luck and have fun! <3