I hung there upside down; suspended in mid air with my mouth taped over and a sheet encasing my body. Shallow thoughts coursed through my head as the anarchic city bustled about below me. How high am I ? How many other doctors are in this same position? Am I going to die? Suddenly a commotion begins and there are sounds of lighting and the cracking of bones. Then, he spoke: 'why are you doing this?' Yelled a gruff male voice. 'Ah..mr. cole mcgrath. So nice of you to join me for the decision of their fates.'/ "damn" I thought "its kessler!"/ cole spoke again but was interrupted by kessler ' the souls in question on this fine evening are: your girlfriend Trish' he paused' or.. The lives of ten doctors who can save lives and restore the health of this damned metropolis. Which will it be?' He scoffed. A tense silence ensued and ten minutes had to have passed when cole finally spoke ' Take my life instead and let them all go kessler. Isn't that what you want?' A burst of laughter emerged from kesslers throat ' YOU of all people know that's not how this game works. Now choose or they all die!'/ We're dead... Of course he'd choose his damned girlfriend over the meaningless lives of ten highly educated strangers. Its america! What do I expect? Even as these thoughts raced through my mind I knew somewhere deep inside me there was a poisonous hope budding, threatening to blossom and delude me; forcing me to succumb/ Cole sucked in a sharp breath... ' I choose...' You've ten seconds!' Informed kessler. ' TRISH!' A maniacal laugh ripped through kesslers throat as he pushed a button sentencing everyone hanging to their deaths. ' you've chosen wrong cole! That isn't Trish!'/ my eyes widened at this. So we were dying for nothing. I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. At that moment I would have done anything to express the devastation racking my body. Maybe it was the altitude getting to me and the amount of blood rushing to my head, but I felt calm. I realized the inevitable and concluded my acceptance. Then I felt it. I was falling; we were falling. It was surprisingly peaceful and I felt myself close my eyes. I let the wind take me and smiled as I realized :This is it. But I was still falling.