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Then it was the girl who decided to go there. I am not victim blaming here. I just want to state that in this case why the schools were involved. The place nor time is nothing to do with Schools. Just because two school are neighbor they are searching for the outlet of 'guilty prospect'. For the girl sake may be life risk. But school? Nothing to do with that. Just her father shifting responsiblity and being petty.
Sorry, I think we're looking at this differently cause probably most of us here read multiple genres and have read some toxic tropes. That was my first reaction, too. Anticlimactic. However, as I'm weighing it now, it feels like we're downgrading a life and death scenario of a minor, high schooler? Like, I believe that cliff was kinda high and imagine the girl was also on the thin side, with some commotion going on in the background. Plus it was a dark, secluded area. Falling off from that would for sure scare the living lights of anyone. It's just toned down with the words "fell down". But how about, "the excruciating pain she felt on her shoulders as her body slides down the hill, all of a sudden her face bumped into a bulging rock she couldn't see, that nearly took her breath away, her nerves wracking because she couldn't see in the dark. Her body twisting, painfully hearing a crack from her hand. Her body limping as she drop to the ground from that hard fall. Her body went dropped, with clothes soaked of blood from all the wounds she got from unknown branches and debris"...
If we imagined it that way, it's actually kinda scary, don't you think? I just realized, too..