Huo Linghun and Xiao Xin were traveling and exploring as they often did. On their way back from one adventure they found that a landslide had blocked the path so they found another way. The only thing was that it involved crossing a bridge over a deep canyon.

It took a very very long time to convince Xiao Xin to cross the bridge, and finally they were almost to the other side. Huo Linghun got to the end first and noticed with dread that the ropes on this side were fraying and hanging on by only a thread.

He turned to pull Xiao Xin to safety, but Xiao Xin was nowhere near the end yet. Why are you still so far away... Huo Linghun thought to himself. "Hurry!" he called.

"I can't!" Xiao Xin said. He was clinging to the rope side and shuffling his feet forward one at a time at the slowest pace possible.

Huo Linghun didn't get a chance to do anything else before the rope snapped. He lunged for it but missed and it went flying over the cliff. Through his panic he heard Xiao Xin screaming for him, saw him hanging from the tilted bridge, losing his grip.

Huo Linghun leaped off the cliff after the rope, catching it just in time. That was when Xiao Xin fell from the bridge and Huo Linghun swung into him, hurrying to grab onto him as their bodies collided.

They were left clinging to each other, dangling from the rope over the center of the canyon where it was attached to the failing bridge. "Linghun," Xiao Xin said, his voice breathless and shaky; "You didn't know that would work. You... you took a risk."

"Yes I did," Huo Linghun replied, also breathless and shaky. He remembered telling Xiao Xin about his promise to himself to never take dangerous risks. "You are worth any risk I have to take."

Xiao Xin knew how meaningful this was. "Thank you," he said sincerely.

Then the sound of more ropes snapping reached their ears. Their eyes widened and in the next second they were swinging uncontrollably as the rest of the bridge detached from the land above. They swung all the way to the other side, squishing face first against the opposite cliff like pancakes.

"Still worth it..." Huo Linghun's voice came muffled against the cliff.

Once they had climbed their way back up to where they had started Xiao Xin announced his decision: "We're finding another way back that doesn't involve crossing over canyons."