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🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | I looked through a gap in the forest canopy up at the sky alive with sunset blaze and thought |
0:08.7 | beyond the heavy shroud of human concern life is vibrantly beautiful. |
0:14.6 | Then I took another step and I was falling into the earth. |
0:19.8 | My head bright of the shock as my surroundings grew darker and |
0:23.0 | darker. I fell, thinking only that I was about to die and I didn't know why or |
0:30.3 | even really how. I managed to twist around during my descent and land my back, |
0:36.0 | so that my pack cushioned the fall a bit. |
0:38.0 | There was an uncertain and horrifying moment |
0:41.0 | where my breath wouldn't come to me and my nervous system still screamed against the prospect |
0:46.2 | of imminent death. |
0:48.7 | When my breath finally returned, it brought with it a cloying stench which cut short any feelings of relief about being alive. |
0:57.0 | I tried not to consciously put a name to that smell and plugged my nose while sucking in air through my mouth until I had |
1:05.5 | resumed something approaching a steady rhythm. Then I looked up at the opening |
1:10.5 | hole I had fallen into where the last of the day's light was dissipating. |
1:16.4 | It was impossible to tell how far up it was, but it was far enough. |
1:21.6 | I would have to climb out somehow. I gingerly propped myself up on an elbow, aching |
1:27.6 | from the drop and noted for the first time that the ground wasn't dirt. It wasn't quite soft and it wasn't quite hard, though sometimes |
1:37.6 | harder and sometimes softer. It was lumpy and cold. |
1:44.0 | Death. |
1:45.6 | The thought came to me unbidden and despite my best efforts to keep it at bay. |
1:51.7 | That smell is death. And below you, corpses? You've landed in a mass grave. |
1:59.8 | I sprang to my feet and took a series of careful steps, trying not to trip over what I imagined |
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