The New Moon's Arms
“But I was beginning to have my doubts.
There I hung where I’d found myself. No, where I’d put myself; halfway up the trunk of the almond tree on the cliff, my arms and legs wrapped round it in a grip so intimate it was practically lewd. And I was stuck. Shit. I weighed almost three times what I had at ten years old, and I now had arthritis in one knee.
I managed to turn my head and look down. It was a good seven-foot drop to the ground. Little Chastity would have leapt the distance like... a tree frog and barely noticed the effort, but when I even thought of jumping down from that height, I could practically hear my kneecaps warning me of the consequences. They would pop right off, they promised. They would roll down the hill and over the cliff, and nobody would ever find them again, and I’d be lying under the tree, kneecapless and sorry.
I tightened my all-fours grip on the tree trunk. The first crotch of branches was fanned out just above my head.MoreLess
There I hung where I’d found myself. No, where I’d put myself; halfway up the trunk of the almond tree on the cliff, my arms and legs wrapped round it in a grip so intimate it was practically lewd. And I was stuck. Shit. I weighed almost three times what I had at ten years old, and I now had arthritis in one knee.
I managed to turn my head and look down. It was a good seven-foot drop to the ground. Little Chastity would have leapt the distance like... a tree frog and barely noticed the effort, but when I even thought of jumping down from that height, I could practically hear my kneecaps warning me of the consequences. They would pop right off, they promised. They would roll down the hill and over the cliff, and nobody would ever find them again, and I’d be lying under the tree, kneecapless and sorry.
I tightened my all-fours grip on the tree trunk. The first crotch of branches was fanned out just above my head.MoreLess
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