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I’m falling through the plenum’s darkness, toppling into the stumpy top of an interior wall or the aluminum-framed floor or even the wires holding that floor or maybe a light because electrocution is all I need, horrid pain in my gut where something punched into me and the force sent me spinning and I’m only pissed that I didn’t nail Ayaka but maybe when I bleed out it’ll leak through the floor and drip on her head—
The back of my shoulder hits the top of a wall.
My hands flail out, trying to seize my balance before I crash down into the flimsy floor.
Out in the darkness, a foot catches something.
A hand seizes a strand of the floor support wire.
My pulse is louder than the ongoing barrage.
I feel rather than hear the wire’s mount snapping overhead, but that impact absorbed enoug
