CH 5

Along the Way to ××

Presently, I have slipped down the stairs, fallen into a pitch black hole-like something, and dropped straight down that pitch black hole-like something.

I feel like I’ve been falling for quite a long time.

It feels like I’ve been falling for a few minutes now, but was it actually only a few seconds? Dozens of seconds? I am not very sure.

I can see something like a light where I’m falling towards.

That light-like something is steadily getting close and closer.

…No, I suppose it’s me that’s getting closer.

I get the feeling that it is something like an exit.

I feel that at this rate, I will fall head first. It’s dangerous. My sensors are ringing with alarm bells.

I don’t know how strong the impact will be, but at present I’m falling at quite a considerable speed.

If that’s an exit, then I feel that falling headfirst will be dangerous.

So I somehow manage a spin, and bring my head up.

This is not the time to be shrieking. I’m in a pinch.

However, I continue to shriek. It is not something you can stop just because you think that you should.

Just before my body was enveloped by that thing that seems like a light, somehow or other I managed to get upright. However, I couldn’t get as far as fixing my posture, and just fell into the light like that, buttocks first.