A Wolf After My Own Heart by MaryJanice Davidson

Author:MaryJanice Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

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7. National Business Aviation Association.

8. Only one of those is made up. The others were actually served in restaurants. That’s the world we’re living in.

Chapter 27

It was the hot smell of plane fuel and the cold blast of wind. It was the dizzying euphoria of free fall and the surge of adrenaline that made her mouth taste like she’d been sucking on a roll of pennies. It was getting out of your seat so you could jump out of a plane while ignoring your brain’s panicked demands that you sit your ass back down. It was standing by an open plane door and intellectually knowing the static line was in place to help while your gut was positive it was a hindrance.

It was putting your trust in canvas and rope and nylon. It was feeling the greedy earth use terminal velocity to snatch you back, back, all the way down.

And then the shock in your knees when gravity reminds you: You belong to the earth again. It’s letting the big muscle groups soak up and spread out the impact, the way Kevlar soaked up bullets: you lived, but it still hurt. All that kinetic energy had to go somewhere.

She’d done her research. Over three million jumps every year, just in the US.

Millions of people hurtling toward Earth at terminal velocity. Every single year.

It was…too much. Too chaotic, too much free fall, too inherently unstable. That had struck her first thing during her research: “The deployment process is inherently chaotic.”

Nutshell.

So once was enough. Because she only had to jump once and she knew: you could go high and you could go far; you could jump three million times a year, but the earth always got you back, one way or the other.

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