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085. Falling

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Summary: Original fiction drabble, based on my continually-renamed superhero novel.

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Allison leapt off the dais and started to fall.

"Agh"

She closed her eyes, trying to concentrate, but the air rushing past was too distracting and before she knew it her feet suddenly slammed into the mat. Her legs buckled and she fell to her knees.

"Oof!"

Aunt Reggie clucked her tongue. "Ooh, nice effort. Try it again."

Allison gazed up to where Aunt Reggie was hovering, effortlessly, ten feet in the air. She grimaced, but obediently picked herself up and climbed up to the top of the dais again.

"Concentrate," she muttered to herself, closing her eyes. Try to feel the air around you, like it was an extension of yourself…try to feel the power inside supporting you

She jumped. She fell. She crashed.

"Ow!"

"I don't think you're concentrating hard enough." Aunt Reggie's tone was definitely teasing now. "Try again."

Allison groaned and dragged herself back up to the dais. She took a slow, deep breath. Concentrate. Feel gravity pushing on you and force it away. Concentrate. Concentrate. Concentrate

She jumped, she fell, and then she was rising up again with nothing to support her as the normal laws of nature suddenly inverted. She gasped, eyes wideningand then she was falling again, and with a startled cry landed back on the mat.

Allison gazed up again, and though hard to tell from this distance she could have sworn her aunt's smirk looked approving. "Impressive, Allie! You may just get this yet."

Another vignette based on my superhero novel. My newer outlines have promoted Allison to a main character, so I need to figure out her personality more.
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