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“Well, this was a stupid idea,” Brianna admitted

She had attempted to fly That was the fact of it She had tried to translate her great speed into a sort of bounding, leaping version of flight

It had made perfect sense at the time Sam had ordered her not to enter the power plant’s control rooet the lay of the land, to see where all of Caine’s people ht: What would be better than the view fro?

She’d been toying for a long ti She’d worked out the basic concept, which a a little high, then juher still It wasn’t rocket science It was no different fro a strea a set of stairs two at a time

Only in this case the “stairs” had been a parked , with the final “step” being the turbine structure itself

The first two steps had worked fine She had accelerated to perhaps three hundred miles an hour, leaped, sla, kept alain whatever speed she’d lost, and made the jump to the roof of the massive concrete hulk

And that’s when things had gone wrong

She was just short of landing on the flat part of the roof and instead hit the shoulder It wasthan it was the sort of airplane-landing-on-runway situation she was looking for

She’d seen the concrete rushing up at her She’doff and falling all the way to the ground, but her desperate lunge had ended with an out-of-control i her

And no, having reached this perch, she couldn’t actually see

“Sa to kill me,” Brianna muttered

Then, as she bent a knee, “Ow”

The roof was a few hundred feet long, one third as wide She trotted—slowly—from one end to the other She found the access door easily, a steel door set in a brick superstructure This would lead down to the turbine room and from there to the control room

“Well, of course there would be a door,” Brianna ht from the start”

She tried the doork