Cris stifled a laugh at AJ's display of outright indignance at his proposal of a head start for her. He should have known that being the typical lion she was, she wasn't going to accept that. He grinned when she flexed her arms to show how strong she was. Definitely feisty too.

Shrugging his shoulders, he nodded,"Sure. That's fine with me. No handicap at all," he agreed looking down at her. Yes he was still going to give her a handicap, she was just not going to know about it.

"May I suggest you warm up first. You don't want to muscles to cramp up, most especially in this cold," Cris suggested to AJ. The last thing he wanted to do was to explain to the Healer why a 17 year old boy was racing with a 11 year old girl.