You try to run across

Thinking about how you would follow your mistress you can’t really come up with a solution.

As you would follow your mistress… Hmmm. The answer seems to evade you for a few minutes and the only thing you can think of is “fast.”

A slave should follow his mistress quickly, therefore the only solution can be for you to just run across.

You quickly break into a run and you are already halfway across the bridge when something soft smashes into your side with enough force to topple you.

You lose your balance and fall sideways, down into the black depths. The river semi-liquid material is soft to fall into, you barely feel a thing.