CONTENT ADVISORY: this snippet again contains an amount of bad language. Sorrel is not a lady.
Blondie pointed at the rope
bridge again.
“Volging
lafquass, Blondie!” I swore. “You expect me to cross that?”
Knowing that he couldn't understand me only added to my
vituperation.
There was nowhere else
for me to go. I just had to find the strength and get on with it. I
scowled at Blondie again, and stepped onto the bridge.
Believe
me, I'd much rather be in an aeroplane at ten thousand feet than on a
fragile rope bridge forty feet over a churning river. The spray from
the rapids meant the ropes were slick, and as I moved over the walkway the roar of the water became deafening. The universe is fundamentally
unfair – all that water, and I couldn’t do anything to quench my
thirst.
Comments and brickbats welcomed!
Great snippet...and I too would rather be up in a sky-bound metal can. :-)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! Aeroplanes somehow feel safer.
DeleteFrustrating indeed.
ReplyDeleteSorrel gets frustrated easily. Usually, she takes out her frustration by hitting things...
DeleteWhat could be more frustrating than being forced to deal with a terrifying situation surrounded by those who don't understand you? Scary stuff. Love the line about quenching her thirst. And the word vituperation--it's new to me and I'll cherish it forever.
ReplyDeleteI've got a bad habit of using odd words - I think I must have been bitten by a rampaging dictionary when I was a small child.
DeleteWhat better tension than crossing a rope bridge. I like that she calls one of them Blondie. I'm guessing not their given name.
ReplyDeleteNo, Blondie isn't his real name - she can't talk to them yet. Yet another reason Sorrel is irritable.
DeleteThese are always fun snippets!! Me thinks I'd better get the book and read it undisturbed from start to finish!!
ReplyDeleteThanks - I hope you enjoy it. I'd love some feedback if you do get it...
DeleteAw, come on! Rope bridges are fun!
ReplyDeleteDepends on the rope bridge - ever done Go Ape or similar? (Rope crossings strung high up between trees). Scared me rigid! (My children, on the other hand, had no worries at all - there ain't no justice!)
DeleteA single rope, or does it have another half high to act as a handrail?
ReplyDeleteBTW Jarn's here. Thought I signed up, but I guess not.
A single rope, with a rope on each side - actually, Sorrel's being surprisingly wimpish. Her excuse is that she is exhausted, hungry and thirsty.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll come looking for Jarn.
I think I would cuss too! I can see her inching along. Nice snippet.
ReplyDeleteThanks - the couple of times I did something like this I was very cautious, but I expect my heroine to be made of sterner stuff!
DeleteOh man, I sympathize. I'll take a plane over a bridge like that any old day!
ReplyDeleteSorrel agrees wholeheartedly!
DeleteThat would have me swearing too!
ReplyDeleteMe too - not that it takes much to make Sorrel swear!
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