Here I go! said Blurtso, looking down at what lay below him. Here I go! he said again, still looking at all the things that lay below. Blurtso’s boney little hoofs clung tightly to the rocky spine on which he stood, and his pin-point eyes were bright and full of frenzy.
    

Here I go! he said a little more quietly and with much less conviction. Here I go! Here I go! Here I go! he repeated and clung even more tightly to the spine that began to cut into his hoofs and make them bleed. Here I go! he said more loudly but with no conviction at all. Here… I… and off he went, slipping, sliding, and tumbling into the only future that awaited him.