The air rushed past me as I plummeted through the darkness. For a good few seconds, there was nothing but black. I couldn't even see my own body. My arms and legs seemed to hang in an endless void, weightless and disconnected from anything familiar. The wind roared in my ears, carrying with it a strange, metallic tang, like ozone after a storm. I could feel my stomach lurch as my body hurtled downward, every nerve alight with the realization that this was not an ordinary fall.
But then my eyes adjusted.
