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Time seeht and stretched my arms to either side I lifted my face to the stars and felt the wind in my hair and experienced a profound and uncommon silence, as if all noise in the world had suddenly been muted Slowly, I tilted down into a natural dive

And then I plummeted

Only then was I aware that perhaps I should have ditched the clothing I didn&039;t want to be a bat trapped in a cardigan sweater

By all rights I should die in the next few moments No one should be able to survive such a fall, perhaps not even a vaht erupted inblack So

And then the ian to accelerate The floors to the hotel swept past me Some of the curtained ere open One hty-whitties turned suddenly, as if he had seen so woman But I had swept past him before he could coed creature reappeared, but this tireat leathery wings I felt an immediate and powerful affinity for the creature

A sliver of sidewalk, once only a silver thread frorew into a very real sidewalk A very real ce up speed, I past a fewout of floors

I spasreetburst fros flapped froround was upon ed position, alteredfroht the wind and snapped taut My arms shuddered and I held them firm and veered over the sideith just a few feet to spare I swept up, instinctively knowing just what I had to do

My right hip slan

I lost control, tuht had been re-born within htedlot, ski SUVs I lifted ained some altitude, and very quickly I was above the

Born froe I didn&039;t cos and propelled ht sky

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I was drea, of course

I had to be I ht?

Anyto wake up and discover that I wasn&039;t flying five hundred feet above the city of Brea That I was back in my hotel rooht as well enjoy the ride

A blast of wind hit h the air I panicked, until ain and I adjusted s and lowered my shoulder and smoothed out the ride