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In this episode of Story time with Shatter/Doom that totally isn't a rip off of Story Time with Starry, we have: Horses! Mountains! Green! Feet! and Pain!
*very weird quick talking like those health risks that make meds seem worse XD*
Stay tuned till the end to figure out what happened to Schatten Waechters foot!

So, me and my mom have been driving to bring our horse to quarantine so he can fly to Germany with us and we stopped in the most beautiful place ever. It was absolutely gorgeous.
The guy who owned the place we rented for a couple nights was an older Australian so I think I picked up some Australian slang (very proud) and he was a saddle maker.
We arrive to this place, eat dinner with him and his house-mates and go to bed; next morning I realize I forgot my riding shoes. (Forgot to mention we were staying a day longer to go riding with him)
So here comes the first thing that wasn't great.
My mom for some reason brought two of her riding shoes, but my feet are a whole size/size and a half bigger than hers so I thought I wouldn't fit.
On the contrary. They were too big for my feet and rubbed against my heels with every step- and uncomfortable. I have no idea how she can walk in them. She claims they're the most comfortable shoes she's ever worn. HA.
I pushed through the discomfort and wore the shoes that rubbed against me the least (I have very sensitive skin- even if I wear thick socks I have a chance of getting blisters from shoes; I was lucky this time- maybe)

So I join the Australian guy to get his horses out and he says he wants to see my writing, I reply with "I can trot and gallop; but I don't really have a preferred style; whatever's most comfortable" XD. After a while I realized my mom betrayed me and told him that I liked writing books and stories.

So we tack up the horses and I sit down on the most comfortable saddle I've ever been in. an Aussie saddle. I love it. Whatever the Australians did they did it right XD
We start out trail ride and I'm blown away by the amazing views of mountains and oceans and vineyards (I have pics if you guys want some) and then on a little down hill to uphill dip my horse starts galloping (not a scared gallop, more of a 'its easier to get up with this momentum' gallop) and the Australian says "wow, he hasn't galloped like that in a couple months." (the horse was a retired Polo horse)
After that we continue riding and on the way back there's this big hill where the horses have an easier time to gallop up than walk.
This is where my foot gets hurt.
We start galloping, and its pretty steep and the horse is old, so he really needs momentum to get up.
That momentum and his already kinda bumpy gallop unseated me, making me loose one stirrup and before I get my balance back I loose the next (they were too long now that I think about it XD) I try to get my balance back for a while but I didn't want to make the horse uncomfortable with pulling on the reins and squeezing his sides while I cling for my life so I jump off.

Now, to make you guys wait longer, I'm going to describe how proud of this fall I am.
In a matter of seconds I had calculated how I was going to fall and what I would do with my arms and legs without actually realizing I was doing this so when I fell I slapped the ground with my arm to spread the force away from my back and my head had no contact with the rocky ground XD
Then the horse stepped on the side of my foot full gallop.

So, after the horse steps on my foot and stops on the top of the hill I get up and start walking up; no limp yes pain. But surprisingly not that much pain.
We ride back to the guys house (I'm so happy that this horse wasn't barn sour- its been so long since I've ridden one that isn't)
and I help the guy unsaddle and wash off the horses and he gives my mom his email so I can send him my writing. *anxiety increases*
I take off my shoes and socks and start freaking out because my foot was swollen and my rational mind wasn't working.
I've broken bones before, I've gotten bad wounds before, I've popped a blood vessel in my foot before; all of this has hurt worse than what happened to my foot and the blood vessel hurt so much I couldn't walk.
So I know 'how much does it hurt?' isn't the best way to figure out if its broken but its good enough for me XD
I check in a couple ways by tensing my foot to see the bone and everything looked good. (moving/tensing my foot didn't hurt, just pressure)
Worst case scenario I have fractured my foot without knowing but that's HIGHLY unlikely. I figure I (by 'I' I mean the horse) just bruised the bone and/or skin because today the swelling is down and my foots just purple.

Now, going back to the writing (the Australian is a retired journalist and has apparently written a book himself).
I emailed him the most recent example of my writing of a story that I've started. *anxiety rises*

The next morning while we're loading my moms horse he comes down and says he wants me to come with him *anxiety levels close to overflowing*
He then gets out a printed version of my email *ABSOLUTE FEAR* and says:
"This is some of the best writing I've ever seen"
*Embarrassed frown that doesn't know what to do with words deepens*
I'm not joking or exaggerating or trying to make myself look good, he said that. The only words my brain knew how to work were "thank you" and I think my face was actually tomato colored. I was also having that weird nervous-happy-proud-scared for life-shocked- frown-smile thing XD
So now I've been given confidence and must now send him every chapter because he thought the start was so great.
*Anxiety is back*

(I have pictures of my bruise too XD)

I am indeed proud of you picking up some Aussie slang xD

And poor Footy McFoot, hope it gets better soon

Footy McFoot is fine XD

I pretty much only learned dig/digs XD

Ah, I see

Doom

1. First and foremost, hope your foot gets better!

2. Pictures! I wanna see horses and pretty scenery-ness ^^

3. I’ve jumped off a galloping horse too! That’s an interesting story, Also was my sixth grade oratory >.<

4.Your writing is awesome, and you can’t heckling deny it €.<

5. What are you writing about? *curiosity coming to bother me*

I agree with Starro-maggaro on 1, 2, 4 and 5 >.>

Spaghetti

1. My foots fine XD it's had worse-

2. They shall appear soon-

3. Did you have to fall uphill on a Rocky Mountain with a cliff on the other side?

4. I'm not denying it but it's scary to actually have it acknowledged by someone who isn't my mom XD

5. Science fiction story on a super earth water planet with two human colonies and the main character gets kidnapped by one- not saying anymore... I can send you my measly 1/4 of the first chapter XD

I'ma kill you all for planning Ty's murder >:(

How dare you. If anything, we should be planning the death of LESS innocent characters, instead of the most trusting dog there is. WhAt Is WrOnG wItH yOu!?!?!