"Less slope-y definitely sounds like a good place to start," Emmett says, laughing. One thing he does know about all of this is that she's right that it will be too difficult if it's too flat — that much is just common sense — but even just from getting a cursory glance today, some of these slopes look more than a little daunting, nothing he's even close to ready for. Starting small is the only way he's bound to have any success here at all. That, and help from Elle, whom he knows from experience is nothing if not encouraging. "And how did you do when you were five?"