I've not taken part in SFFS for some time - blame real life for getting in the way. This week my snippet is from Sorrel Snowbound, which is the recently-released sequel to Sorrel in Scarlet. Sorrel, my pilot heroine, is climbing the edge of the Chasm to reach the surface.
The climb was going pretty well.
I'd come across a dozen chunks that
I decided not to trust my weight to, but the vast majority of the
rock-face felt as solid as the stuff between my ears.
Until now. A large outcrop of
grey-green granite, a perfect handhold at the top – how was I
supposed to know it was only attached to the cliff by a couple of
blobs of fungi? I gripped it firmly, hauled myself up... and I felt
it lurch, folding out from the cliff and carrying me out into the
void, to begin a half-mile fall to destruction.
I was screaming - the rock was
perhaps eight feet high, twelve feet wide, and I was clutching it
with both hands. Not a chance of grabbing any other piece of the
cliff-face. I can fly most things, but boulders aren't in my
repertoire.
Comments gratefully received!
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