Maglor: In general, yes, I believe in redemption. On a case-by-case basis, I think? I am certainly cynical about public redemption for major wrongs, given the way media/celebrity culture works, but, a world without redemption seems untenably bleak.
Bifur: HAHAHAHA. This is actually a good story. I broke my right middle finger several years ago. Falling off a horse, or more accurately, not actually getting all the way onto the horse in the first place. This was back when I was riding Sam, the 19hh dude, and the barn didn’t have a proper mounting block, so I used to park him between the vaulting barrels in the corner of the arena and use one of them to stand on. Unfortunately, this particular time, I did not put my left foot in the stirrup, or have adequately short reins, so when Sam decided to turn around and go back to his stall, I had my right foot sort of barely over his back.
I held on for a surprisingly long time, especially considering that he had to go through a fence gate that he barely fits through without someone on him. By the time I came all the way off, he was back in the aisle, which is concrete, so it’s probably ultimately good that I held onto the reins as hard as I did, because I think otherwise I’d’ve broken a lot more things on landing.
Horse was totally shocked that it actually worked, btw.