This week's snippet is again from Sorrel Snowbound (with a slight tweak to add the cue-word for the week). Sorrel survived her short flight on a boulder (see last week's snippet) and has reached the surface. She now has to decide what to do next.
I
had to go north, to get moving and find out where I was. With a
little luck, I could hitch a lift on a cart or a steamcar. Get into
familiar surroundings, and get myself to Werintar, and go from there
to the aerodrome. What could possibly go wrong?
My twisted, evil
subconscious instantly came up with a detailed list, complete with
graphic illustrations and even some sound effects. Sunstroke, robbers,
starvation, dragons, fevers, runaway traction engines, broken
bridges, snowdrifts, fires, crashing aeroplanes, earthquakes,
lightning strikes, hallucinations...
I began to chuckle, my mood
lifting as my imagination came up with increasingly improbable
perils. I had faced everything the Chasm could throw at me. Down
there, they had real monsters – ruzdrool, graalur, lloruk,
scortuliqs. If I could handle them, I could put the boot to the
surface threats, no trouble.
Overconfident? Sorrel? Never...
Comments, as always, are very welcome!
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