The ice crunched beneath my feet like Captain Crunch cereal. The blood in my mouth really rounded out the childhood memory re-surfacing to my mind. My mouth tasted like iron and metal. My lips were cold and swollen. I reached for the snow which was frozen to the touch and picked some up and padded it on my face. I looked at my hand and saw blood on the snow.

What happened?

A moment ago I was flying down the Black Diamond hill on my snowmobile. A stray tree root bulged in my path and sent me and my snowmobile heading face first into the snow.

I looked over and the snow mobile was upside down and about 25 feet away from

Me up the hill. I must have gotten ejected from my seat.

My head was pounding. Was it bleeding too or just in pain from getting knocked around. I couldn’t tell. Fuck It’s cold, I thought to myself and kicked some snow out that was creeping up my boot into my sock. The adrenal line was starting to wear a little and the bitter cold began to sink in. My gloves were halfway torn up my hands and filled with snow. My ankles looked bruised yet red from the cold.

It was hard to keep my eyes open the wind was blowing so hard. It whistled in my ears. I looked back up the hill to see if anyone was nearby. No one.

I had to make it to the bottom on my own. Can I even stand up? For a moment I was afraid to move my body. What if I hurt my neck? My neck felt okay so I hoped it would be safe. I slowly got up, hearing the ice crunch beneath my hands and knees. Crunch crunch crunch. I was being devoured by the snow.

Enjoy it while you can, Lucy’s voice quipped in my head.