“Cradle has successfully removed your memories Gale.” Memories? What memories?

  “Take note that language centers, as well as basic life experience and understanding of the world have not been touched. We hope your stay at cradle will bring you success. Good luck.” Cradle? What’s a cradle again?

  “Oh yes! One of those wooden things for babies I think. Wait, what’s a bab-“ Suddenly the wind was whipping my face and I was falling towards a large puffy white cloud.

  I was shocked for a second, then I started giggling. It build up, slowly turning from a giggle into full-blown roaring laughter as it rung out across the sky carried by the wind.

  “This is amazing, the absolute best!” I thought, as I plunged through the wet cloud.

  I emerged from the cloud into heavy torrential rain; apparently they were only white clouds from above. Not that it put a damper on my mood, even if it did make me quite damp.

  Beneath me a sea of green stretched from a large lake that lay on my left and into a forest on my right that I couldn’t see the end of, and in front of me a myriad of large snowcapped mountains, cliffs and valleys.

  A river snaked down from the mountains, with gigantic splashes and sprays of water flying everywhere. It was both majestic and scary as its roar cut through the air and the mountain trembled underneath its onslaught.

  I barely had the time to understand what I was looking at, before a thunderingly loud screech sounded off to my left. I spun my body as fast as I could, and there I saw it.

  An eagle the size of a mountain, diving towards me with its titanic claws outstretched ready to catch me out of the air.

  I was frozen in fear for a short second before I managed to get my mind working. I turned my body downwards in a dive and moved my hands up to split the wind away from me. I had to out dive the predator of the skies. Or die. No other choice.

  I could hear the eagle tearing through the wind right behind me. Desperately I focused even harder on parting the wind and the air in front of me, until suddenly it was like there was no wind, nothing was holding back my fall.

  Sparing a single moment to look down, I noticed the dizzying speed with which I was descending straight towards the ground. No way I was going to survive that, but maybe if I hit the water?

  Pulling on the wind I attempted to make it follow down with me in my descent, having it push my body over towards the water. It was hard, so hard, and I could feel a splitting headache pounding away inside my skull, but eventually I succeeded. The wind started pushing me down faster and slowly over towards the lake. It might seem stupid to go faster, but I could feel the eagle getting closer to me, no idea how.

  The ground really was getting closer now, and whilst hanging there, likely either falling to my death or getting eaten by a mountain turned eagle. I had this surreal experience of realizing that the green sea I had spotted earlier, and was now falling towards was a meadow filled with grass.

  Immediately after realizing this I swore at myself as I realized a much more important thing, I wasn’t going to make it into that lake. So with a last ditch effort i drew on everything I had in me, and pulled on all the wind that was crashing towards the ground with me, making it barage into the side of me in an assault of wind and earth, dust and stone.

  As the wind hit me, so too did all the wind that had passed ahead of me hit the ground. There it exploded in bubble of air that brought bits and pieces of the ground with it up towards me. With the crushing pressure of the wind bubble smashing into me, and the barrage of wind coming from the side I was flung downwards and sideways where I bounced off across the water like a skipping stone thrown by an amateur.

  The pain was immense and everything hurt, no thoughts penetrated my cloud of torment, And before I had any chance of getting used to the new pain, my body impacted with the water again and send me tumbling on with yet another bruise or broken bone. Eventually after skipping across the water 4 or 5 times I had lost enough speed and my body started sinking into the water where I was rapidly slowed. Before I could slow completely down however I hit shore, knocked my head into the sand in a rollover before I ended up on my back.

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  Half a second passed as i coughed out some air trying to stay conscious. Then a whole bunch of blue screens popped up in my vision.

  then I fainted.