He held tightly to the bone and pulled himself out of the red sand and back on the bones.
He looked for the end of the ribs, he saw them coil and roll upside down they seem. he realized this was the remains of a giant snake.
He saw nowhere else to go, so he decided he would follow the bones till he got to the end, he could see a large rock close to the skull of the dead serpent.
He marveled at how real he felt; his avatar's arms were larger than he remembered, and he could feel the sand on his legs and the bone under his feet; he could feel the dry air.
He knew his size could spell doom for me, so he had to be very careful. The bones hung just above the sand because they were hollow and light even though the ones behind him were buried in sand.
I gotta go find Amy, he thought, I gotta get out of here. So he began a slow and careful walk down towards the head of the snake; he could hear the sand seeping in underneath his feet. He gripped onto the bones with every step, but they only made it sink in, too.
One slow step after the other, and he was getting closer, closer to where the bones had rolled over and turned upside down.
They seemed to be his biggest foreseen challenge, but he had noticed the bones he held onto were feeling weaker and weaker with each new one; they wobbled and felt creaky; if they broke off, he didn't want to imagine what that would be like.
He carefully maneuvered his way down the sunken slope, and he did his best not to make it sink in any further, then a rib broke off, causing him to fall to the side, but he still had his grip on the second bone, but with force, he tugged on it, and it snapped in two.
In an instinctive move, Joji quickly grabbed up to the nearest thing as he fell; it was another rib, he got a grip on it, but his weight turned the hollow bones on their side.
He quickly pulled himself back up as the collection of ribs turned, he tried to stabilize it but his weight and the force he had used made it all sink featherdown
It all began to collapse. What in the world! Joji thought; the bones creaked against each other, and he took off running. He knew that was his only way out, but the more he ran the faster they fell. The red sand was on his heel, every bone he stepped on, it swallowed.
He screamed as he ran, as everything crashed behind him; he felt death resting on his shoulders like a perched crow. He made it to the coiled bones, which were resting on their side too
What the hell, how do I get through! he said in terror. The coiled bones were disconnected from the previous; the spine had broken off into this set with this part twisted in several loops; this could have been the animal's final attempt to pry itself out of the belly of the sand pit.
He felt his foot dip into the sand. He panicked and grabbed onto the looped bones over its head, but that only made it fall on its side. He grabbed tightly to it as he lost his grip, but it rolled over on its belly with the rib bones pointing to the sand.
His feet were sinking into the sand fast along with the bone; he knew his only fighting chance was to get on top of the bones; with the large arms, he swung himself towards the left and got a grip on the spine.
He pulled himself up through the narrow gap between the ribs; he could still feel the sand underneath his feet as he pulled himself up in the spine; seeing the sand already engulfing the spine, he immediately broke into a sprint, running on top of the sinking spine.
The spinal column in front of him was already sinking, he felt the sand around his ankles. He could still feel the sunken bone under his feet, so he used them as footing, leaping into the air and landing on the bare sand. He had the spine underneath the sand, and with them, he covered a sufficient distance, but his weight had pushed them further down.
He leaped again, this time aiming for the rest of the snake, unconnected from the others; he flew five feet in the air and felt the hot air rush past him; he timed his descent carefully.
He grabbed onto the bones as he landed, but there was something he failed to take into account: their sturdiness; the bones shattered from his force, breaking apart into pieces and leaving him falling onto the red sand.
He landed in the sand, and they splashed all around him water; the red sand glistened in the sun like little sparks of fire, and he thrashed around, but he could feel himself sinking; he grabbed up to an intact bone. Joji tried to pull himself out.
The bone he held onto was connected to the head of the snake and luckily for him the snake had its fangs embedded into the rock as a last gasp for its survival
Why would I respawn here of all places, this is so unfair he thought as he pulled his weight up, the bones creaked and felt like it was about to snap but he couldn't stop pulling on them as he was sinking too
He pulled himself close enough to grab onto another bone; the joint felt like it'd dislocate at any moment. They creaked and waned and rubbed against each other roughly; it felt like doom to him, but he kept fighting. Amy's waiting for me, he thought.
He pulled him closer and closer. The sand was below his knee now, but his lifeline could snap at any moment. He felt the tension rising as the creaking noise stretched out, it could break any moment now, but he was so close. Then It snapped
It shattered into a piece and fell all around him. A cloud of red dust rose as he hit the sand, and he managed to land a shy grip on the neck of the snake just in the nick of time. With his arms stretched to their limit and with the sand up to his waist, he was running out of time.