Whistle.
The ball left the ref's hand, and everyone jumped at once. Kai rose first, tall and clean, quickly surpassed by the giants, Rei and Nash, aiming for timing over height.
For a moment, it looked even, the three of them fighting gravity in the same frame.
Then a shadow passed over them.
Jaz, the real giantess of the night.
She came from behind, faster, higher, her rise breaking rhythm with everyone else. The crowd gasped as she climbed past the other jumps like a tower.
If Nash could see what she looked like from the Baby Boom's perspective, her terrible grin, he might have freaked out.
Time seemed to slow, the ball still climbing, her fingers stretching toward it.
The arena fell into that heavy silence that preceded something wrong or amazing.
Her hand met the ball, a hollow thap echoed through the air, her eyes widened in amazement, and then... The whistle blew again.
