The floor vanished.
No warning. No final rumble. No dramatic crack of doom. It just dropped out from under us like the mine had decided we no longer needed floors.
One second Nathan was sprinting across unstable stone with me clinging to him.
The next we were falling straight into darkness.
I screamed. Not a refined scream. More like the sound a blender would make if someone tossed a whole watermelon inside it.
The rush of air tore the breath from my throat. The darkness swallowed us whole. I felt weightless and heavy at the same time, like gravity could not make up its mind.
Nathan twisted in the air faster than I could blink.
He curled around me, his body one solid shield of heat and muscle. He tucked my head under his chin, arms crushing me to his chest. His claws extended from i
