I fell into a burning ring of fire

[cinder]

Alright, this title has just misled you, gentle reader! Cinder did NOT fall into a burning ring of fire, for that would have been very pleasant considering she is good friends with the ever so kind powerful Gayatanaomosquito (aka Aya who is Satan, don't let her angel-looks deceive you) Yes, gentle reader my name did NOT mislead you... much. Cinder fell off a cliff while night-caving on her outdoor-education school trip.

Alright, so I'm going to take things from the beginning to the end, let you in on all the dirty secrets of my week. It starts off with waking up at seven, Tuesday morning and saying good bye to the luxuries that we commonly refer to as the shower, television, LAPTOP!, bed, dog, slave mother and all the other unimportant bits like electricity and blahblahblah.

DAY 1

Got on the bus, sat near/flirted with a) the guy who I at the time liked and who I found out likedSTILL likes me. b) the guy who somehow nailed a girl two years older and a few inches taller than him (hes a friend, it wasn't I'm-Going-To-Steal-You-From-Her flirting) c) the cluster of nerds who somehow made their way to the back of the bus and thought they were really cool and d) the guy who models :DDD

Enough with the rambling. I hiked five miles in Doctor Martins, ate a crabby dinner (vegetarians beware, the food on my outdoor trip was edible but well... I'm about to go eat my blessed CPK pizza, soup, soda, and cake then come back and finish this. I swear the food I listed is like the biblical mana in comparison to the food they served there, not to make fun of the awesome-possum cooks)

Yeah, Day One was greeeeaaaat but I'm bored now so I'll skip to the interesting parts

DAY TWO

Bouldering 'scrambling' time! All day the camping staff were staring at me and asking me if I was a dancer. Apparently for being a prissy, city-girl I kick arse when bouldering. Like super-duper ninja skillet, its nbds business. I went caving and led the whole group >> the staffers let me help people who got stuck and I just well, I owned.

Later that night I went back to the caves, led the group again and then I fell. About twenty feet. It SUCKED--the guy I liked/who likes me saw it and now suffers from PTSD. Same with the staffers and pretty much everybody involved. I'm extremely tired right now, just drained but I thought I'd let y'all know and I'll post a more complete story later. I'm spiritually healed/wounded though, I feel stronger than I ever have but that PTSD is still suckish and I find myself crying for the first time since the accident like now. Greys Anatomy the show, it does that to you ^^ I could have broken my legs, hit my head or even died--the staffers told me that, but I came out with a cat-scratched back, bruised limbs and scrapes all over the place. I survived. Its a miracle!

Still I feel as though I developed Stockholm syndrome for that place, those caves. A little part of me will always be down that crevice thinking I'm dead and just don't know it yet, thinking numbness had set in and I would feel pain soon. I love those caves though, I love the feeling of a small place and I feel like Aranica the rocks and I are one. I've convinced my mother to let me take rock-climbing lessons and I will be fine.

Sorry this story is like 'mushmushincoherentmushmush' but I'm just about to fall asleep ^^ Here's a picture of my hot-arse face with a lil scrape on my nose. I don't want to post one of my back, its a lil personal. Please excuse the sunburn and acne--no shower for four days does that to you. Some of my scrapes already healed but I'm sure that bad-arse cut on my nose (how random) will shock you all XDDD

Heres a list of my terrible wounds

*Bruised upper right & left arms
*Scraped lower left arm
*Bruised lower right arm
*Mini-flapper at the base of my thumb
*Emo-cutter scratches on left wrist and right lower arm, inside
*Little cuts all over my hands
*Bloody, scraped up knees
*Bruised upper left leg
*Bruised lower right & left legs
*Blisters on both heels
*Cat-scratches on upper back
*Bruised lower back
*Scratches right above the rear
*This isn't a wound but my pants were shredded XD
*Cut inside lip
*Sliced gums
*Scraped forehead, right side
*Scraped nose, left nostril (how random)
*Scraped cheek, left side
*Bruised jaw, right below the below right-side mouth
*Scraped right hip
*Bruised ego, if that counts

Yeh, so actually posting a picture of my back if y'all want it.

[Jasik]

Damn, that sounds painful >_< At least you had fun, though. And it sounds like your school actually lets you do stuff on class trips *glares at religious retreat in November*

[bacon]

Well at least you're alive/not suffering from major injuries. That would've sucked as I haven't heard about anyone on this site dying...then again if they did they would probably just mysteriously disappear.

Now I want Aya to add scraped left nostril to one of the random generators. Dang it.

[cameron]

Aya's damage charts for the Games say you are dead. Consider yourself lucky.

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[Jasik]

Where's the picture of your nose? I could not find it

[phunke]

CHICA, IF YOU EVER SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WILL GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND SIC NALA ON YOU.

Ho-leeeeeee crap, cinder! D: I can't believe you...and then you...but you're alive! D:

So, erm...Please don't almost-die again? Kthx.

PS. This is so going to give you awesome Games-muse someday

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[Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy]]

Owwww. Just thinking about that is painful. I hope you're alright![/size]

[cinder]

BTW I forgot to include the bad-arse conversation that went down after I... well... went down

-convinced that I'm either dead--and death is a huge disappointment--or numb and will soon feel my broken legs. Also convinced that the attractive snot coming out of my nose is blood and that my nose is broken-

Me: "SORRY!"

-moves around a bit, still convinced I'm about to have a seizure-

Staffer People: -convinced that I'm probably wayyy messed up-
"NONO! STAY WHERE YOU ARE! DON'T MOVE!"

-somehow they found a way down the crevice that enabled them to safely get to me. Thank you for finding that route before somebody got hurt... oh well...-

Me: "Oh, okay"

Staffer: -now down the crevice too- "Are you okay? Do you feel like anything is broken?"

Me: "Well, I don't know, I mean I can walk" -does so to prove the point, probably gave them a heart-attack- "I'm not sure what broken bones feel like"

Staffer: "Okay, come here I need to check you for a concussion"

Me: "Yeah, thats good, I don't think I hit my head but maybe I did and I just don't know it... y'know?"

Staffer: -holds up three fingers- "How many fingers am I holding up?"

Me: -distracted by facial injuries- "Oh... what? Hmm? Three, I think"

Staffer: "How about now?" -holds up whole hand-

Me: "Well, you're holding up five but I mean some people don't count the thumb, y'know?"

Staffer: "What day is it today?"

Me: "I don't know"

Staffer: "..."

Me: -having just realized this is probably bad, I started to focus more- "Oh! Right, so like we left Tuesday and I think its during the week still, so is it Wednesday, like if its before midnight its Wednesday but then after its technically Thursday. How far did I fall again? What day IS it?"

Staffer: "Alright, good I don't think you have any brain damage besides the pre-existing insanity... lets hike you out of this place, can you walk or do you need help?"

Me: "No, me, I'm fine, how about you, are you okay? I'm sorry, so sorry--thank you guys, thank you!"

Staffer: "Don't be sorry"

Me: "But I am sorry"

Staffer: "No, this isn't your fault, don't worry, we're going to hike you out of here and get you to the van"

Me: "Yeah, in case I might be seriously injured, people are usually numb after that, I believe for ten minutes"

Staffer: "It might be twenty, lets hurry though"

-Second staffer going back up to help calm down the masses, we hike out. Ignore the attractive rip in my pants-

Me: "So is, like my nose bleeding, because I feel blood"

Staffer: "No, thats just snot but your mouth is bleeding"

Me: "Gross! Ew!"

-wipes snot away, doesn't really mind the cut up lips and gums-

We hiked out and some guy came over and said lamely, 'Hey, I think somebody got hurt, I heard somebody yell WHOAH!' I lamely attempt to hide the rip in my pants and touch at my nose, which--haha--is bleeding, but not like a nose-bleed bleeding

We walked back to the van, I explained that I was all my mother had, comforted the staffer who was in shock and worried about me, then this happened

Me: "So like, there's still a chance I might be seriously injured, but I don't feel like it. I could be numb. Maybe I'm in shock, am I in shock?"

Staffer: "I don't think so, how do you feel?"

Me: -still talking- "Am I going to start CRYING suddenly? That could be embarrassing, I mean like I feel fine and I don't really want to cry and how far did I fall?"

Staffer: "Fourteen feet, I think. It could have been more"

-I heard forty-

Me: "Really!?!?! Thats nice, a long ways down..."

Staffer: "I used to be a first response worker, I've seen people die going half the distance you did. The way you... it was incredible"

Me: "Sorry"

We keep walking for awhile until we reach the van. He gives me some water with I immediately drink, downing half the bottle and not even caring how its not my water

Me: "Where's my stuff by the way, I think its in the other van, here do you want some water too?"

Staffer: "I already had some, and we can worry about that later"

Me: "Oh, okay then"

Staffer: "Do you think you can stay for the Appreciation Circle? We'll check you out again when we get back to camp, but I'd like for you to be here when everybody else arrives."

Me: -There are two vans, If they were to drive me back alone, half the kids would be screwed for about an hour, waiting to get back to camp in the dark- "Sure, I'm fine, still"

Staffer: "Alright then"

Me: -after the appreciation thing- "OH EW, blech!"

Staffer: "WHAT?"

Me: "I just swallowed some blood, thats so gross!"

Later they checked out my cat-scratch back, and yes I was wearing a bright blue bra, and yes every staffer saw it and no, nobody laughed except me. This conversation is totally true but some of the lines got mixed up because I was obviously delirious. When he asked me what my birthday was a few days later while filling out a report form, I didn't know the answer. I'm pretty sure he asked me right after I fell and I said something about not knowing how many months ago it had been.

Now I'm trying to come up with an excuse to not play violin at school Monday, My back IS sore, I don't think I can handle it >>

[Jasik]

Oh my God, that conversation was hilarious xD

[Hayley]

you could be my long lost sister, cinder. clumsy, and a smart-aleck? are you adopted??

[cameron]

Something similar-ish happened to me back in April. Except I wasn't in a cave at the time when I fell down the mountain.. But I love spelunking <3 I've been twice in Tennessee and I almost fell, but luckily I didn't.

In April, I was hiking Sassafrass mountain, and I didn't have hiking boots because my parents neglect my safety we didn't have enough money to get any at the time. So, I was in normal tennis shoes with no grip whatsoever. We were crossing a big rock formation with water trickling down it. There was about a foot of space you could walk, so we had to shimmy across it with your bellies on the rock. I just happened to step on a slippery spot, and my shoe flew into the air, sending me down about seven or so feet. (I sound lame xP) I landed on my foot, which sprained my ankle. And then I rolled down a steep incline for about thirty or so feet until I hit a tree and stopped... I was in a lot of pain, and I was fairly dizzy for the next hour or so. I don't remember how I got back on the trail, or what anyone said to me really...I just remember that everyone took some of my stuff and carried it, and I just had an empty backpack with the cat-shovel.

...Yeah, yours is a lot more painful methinks. ^^ Estoy feliz de que no se lesiona.

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[sonofshadows]

Oh my God, that's awful... I'm glad you're ok, Cinder. And by ok, I mean alive. I'm with phunke... Don't scare us like that again. I need you alive for Muse 2015! Hope you feel better soon.

[Jasik]

Cam's was a little freaky too. What would've been better is if he had been a smart-aleck, too, not just injured. That's what made Cinder's so awesome tragic epic.

[cinder]

I swear I didn't mean to be so c.o.c.k.y-sounding! It's my NATURAL STATE and I was so shocked I reverted to it

[Jasik]

Who ever said it was a bad thing? It just shows that you've got attitude, which is something to be admired