Shadows on Water
"If you want to reach the Yellow River, this is the way." you say, and you lead onwards.
The path becomes steeper, it cuts down through the mountains into a forested gorge. Looking back, you see a blue mist has settled over the mountain. The stream hurries playfully beside you, splashing over jumbled rocks, and now running over the path in front. Your horse hesitates to step in. The stream isn't deep, but it bubbles as if boiling.
As the horse steps into the stream there is a whirring noise, like bamboo waved rapidly about the head. Something hits the water.
Something cuts into your thigh.
Look at that, there's an arrow stuck in it.
Then there is pain. Amazing, excruciating...
So...
The path becomes steeper, it cuts down through the mountains into a forested gorge. Looking back, you see a blue mist has settled over the mountain. The stream hurries playfully beside you, splashing over jumbled rocks, and now running over the path in front. Your horse hesitates to step in. The stream isn't deep, but it bubbles as if boiling.
As the horse steps into the stream there is a whirring noise, like bamboo waved rapidly about the head. Something hits the water.
Something cuts into your thigh.
Look at that, there's an arrow stuck in it.
Then there is pain. Amazing, excruciating...
So...