I woke with a violent gasp, suffocation crushing my chest.It was still dark.Kent was gone.A note sat on the nightstand, his bold handwriting impossible to miss.[Clara, be brave.]I crushed it in my fist.The next second, a terrifying sensation of weightlessness slammed into me.My body was still on the bed, but it felt like my soul had been hurled ten thousand feet into the air—then dropped.Wind screamed past my ears.Then came the sound of bones breaking.Crack.Starting at my ankles and climbing higher.Calves.Knees.Thighs.Pelvis.Ribs.Spine.I felt every bone shift and snap, driving through muscle and flesh."Ghk."A mouthful of blood burst from my lips, splattering across the white sheets.I was like a fish stranded on shore, my mouth opening and closing, unable to pull in a single breath.This was what the system made me feel during Violet's wingsuit flight.Darkness crept across my vision in waves.Yet through it all, my mind drifted back to the
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