24. Almost Hopeless
Ben
I tried to remember everything Mina had said, everything she had showed me, about how gravity worked down here. I tried to let that comfort me as I plummeted through the shifting, shuddering structure of the Warehouse, bouncing the light blobs off of me and hoping they, and not some other moving piece of stone, were the only things I would hit before I landed.
It didn’t help much.
I focused, I focused as hard as I could on a safe landing on the platform beneath me. I pushed out all thoughts of splattering on the ground like some old cartoon and imagined a soft landing that I would barely feel.
I closed my eyes.
Soft landing.
Soft landing.
Soft landing.
I don’t think I could have been more surprised when I actually did land softly on the platform below, ligh
