The world spun, sickeningly. One moment the dark river was beneath her, then the next the faintly glowing atmospheric shield, then the garish cityscape, pulsing with light and life.And Anneke had scant time to save her own. She couldn’t survive a fall from this height, even into water. She would reach terminal velocity before slamming into the river (or before slamming into the inside ‘skin’ of her personal field) and it would be final.Nor could she collapse the field in so short a space of time. Riding a collapsing field down, like a deflating balloon, would have been a possibility.Pity about that.That left only one thing.She punched the emergency release of her belt, separating the field generator unit from the harness, the two still attached by an elasticised line that could winch out fifty metres or more. Anneke reversed the fields’ polarity – shoving the dial into the red zone, past the safety clicks alerting her to never do this – and flung the belt skyward. From rooftop blast, to reversing the polarity, took less than two seconds, during which Anneke was hurled sideways and then …Dropped.
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