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The bright light faded and was replaced by blackness. There was a short period of blackness, and then I felt like I was floating on a cloud. Floating away… floating in the blackness… I wanted to float away and stay there. It felt good to float and have nothing to worry about and no body and no pain and no problems and no jungle and no monsters...
What was happening? Where was I? Where was Starrick? Where was Darion? I’d fixed the cables, hadn’t I? And I’d been flying! Or floating… But then I’d started to fall… And now I floated in the blackness… Maybe that wasn’t such a good thing after all. I could feel panic start to invade my nice world of blackness. Then I thought, what did the blackness mean?
I wondered if maybe I was dead. Maybe the d**g had slowly worked its way into my brain.
