Sunday Snippet: Big waterfall. Tiny boat. Happy ending?

Time for a Sunday Snippet – and this one comes with a hefty dose of adrenaline. Imagine yourself trapped in a tiny wooden boat. You have no oars, and no way to steer while the river carries you – at ever-increasing speed – towards one of the world’s tallest and most powerful waterfalls.

You know that – in principle – your soulmate should be watching over you from another plane, but is he really? And what can he actually do?

Read today’s Sunday Snippet to find out.

I took another deep breath, pictured blue eyes and golden hair.

“Hiro!” I yelled his name as the current carried me over the edge.

Then I was falling.

The boat jolted and jumped, thrown this way and that by the air billowing up from the base of the falls. I clung to the sides, knuckles white, waiting to see water and death rushing towards me.

They never did.

The current shoved rocks over the edge of the falls along with the torrent of white, swirling waters. But not a single one hit the delicate wooden shell I clutched with white knuckles.

I’d expected the boat to go down bow first, but it stayed level, descending through spray and mist in stuttering jerks that made my stomach heave, until it settled back in the river with a splash that drenched every part of me that wasn’t soaked already.

I’d gone over the Gu-Chian Falls in a tiny wooden craft, and the only thing I had to show for the experience was… nausea?

I pried my fingers from the sides and fell backwards onto the planking, incredulous. My breath came in great, heaving gulps, and my body shook with the terror I’d had no time to feel. Beyond the fear and relief, bright, shining elation waited to claim me. I no longer doubted that Hiro watched over me while I was human.

Now I was certain.

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