Sliding Down the Mountain
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 87892
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Astra pushed off and slid down the slope. She started to veer off to the left, then right, and then left again. There were subtle swells in the sheet of ice that she saw only as she got near them. And then she stopped suddenly, as her rear end hit the point of a rock poking out of the ice sheet. She continued on in this fashion, sliding twenty or thirty yards until she fell into a local trough or skidded into a hidden rock. Fortunately for her, the rocks had been worn by erosion, and she was not cut. But if a steingeweser could become bruised and sore, the back of her legs and rear end surely would be by the time she reached the part of the slope where the ice ended. On the longest stretch, she managed to go nearly a minute without stopping, and thought that this way of moving was great fun, until she hit a spot that had been exposed to more sunlight than the rest, and was therefore rocky. She managed to slow down enough so that the rocky patch did not harm her. She had reached the end of the ice sheet. She had manuevered herself to a flat, gravelly part of the slope, where she could stand up. She examined her dress and shoes. The dress had held up remarkably well, with a few small holes in the "fabric" that had been gouged out by rocks, in addition to some threadbare spots from flaking, but no tears. Her shoes showed fresh signs of wear on the heels, but they were still intact as well. She walked forward, and discovered that she was on a gravel ledge hundreds of yards above its base. She hoped that the gravel was part of a trail leading down. She looked out into the distance. To the left, there was a stream in a canyon. In the middle, there was a large, rocky hill. To the right, there appeared to be a meadow of grass, with a few dwarf aspens. Astra decided to
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