Then, the leverage failed. The pine slipped from the boulders and swung wildly downstream, taking Elias with it.
When he woke in the hospital in town, the young couple was there. They were holding hands, their faces pale. woodman torrent
He felt his shoulder pop. He felt the cold water biting at his legs. But he held. He was the Woodman. He had spent his life understanding the tension of wood, the give of the earth. Then, the leverage failed