Sunlight flickered through splintered cracks in the crate. A dizzying, confusing stream of information was pouring from his sensors. The world was upside-down. A powerful wave of heat was battering him. What was happening? How had it happened? The alarms began to resolve into digestible information: it was The Spine that was upside-down. The world had not flipped on its axis.
And it wasn't the sun causing the kaleidoscopic light pouring through the cracks in the battered crate--it was fire.
The side of the crate shattered outward around The Spine's jabbing elbow. He punched and kicked his way from the wreckage, found his feet in the damp sand. His crate had been thrown from the belly of the plane as it ripped apart. Much of what remained was burning, filling the air with greasy, black, and no doubt acrid smoke that made it difficult to make sense of what he was seeing.
There were bodies.
There were bodies.
The Spine shuddered into action, hurrying towards the wreckage as quickly as he could and calling for his family and friends. He'd survived. Surely they had too. He had to believe they had.
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Sunlight flickered through splintered cracks in the crate. A dizzying, confusing stream of information was pouring from his sensors. The world was upside-down. A powerful wave of heat was battering him. What was happening? How had it happened? The alarms began to resolve into digestible information: it was The Spine that was upside-down. The world had not flipped on its axis.
And it wasn't the sun causing the kaleidoscopic light pouring through the cracks in the battered crate--it was fire.
The side of the crate shattered outward around The Spine's jabbing elbow. He punched and kicked his way from the wreckage, found his feet in the damp sand. His crate had been thrown from the belly of the plane as it ripped apart. Much of what remained was burning, filling the air with greasy, black, and no doubt acrid smoke that made it difficult to make sense of what he was seeing.
There were bodies.
There were bodies.
The Spine shuddered into action, hurrying towards the wreckage as quickly as he could and calling for his family and friends. He'd survived. Surely they had too. He had to believe they had.