Left is the
direction you came from… roughly.
They’ll never expect you to go back that way! It’s genius!
You start cautiously running along the cliff side, trying to make as
little noise as possible to throw the cop off your trail. You’ve done a good job stepping lively for
about thirty yards and it looks like you’re in the clear when you put your left
foot a little too close to the edge and the ground falls apart underneath
it. You tumble and roll down the hill –
it’s a little less steep here than where you started – and come to rest at the bottom
of the small gorge, your head supported by a smooth rock, staring into the sun,
and the rest of you unable to move. You
think you might have a lot of broken bones and you pray there’re only a few
real breaks, but it’s really hard to tell from this position. If anything is broken it’s probably best not
to move, but if you call for help the cop will hear for sure. Although you do have your cell phone in your
pocket… You
