You may have your own laws of nature, but you can't defy those of a nature so much bigger than you.
The Runners are free-flowing, attached to the rooftops and the sky scrapers. They create skyway avenues that only they have the ability to travel. They are probably the only natural thing in this city. Natural, dirty, energetic, they're forever moving, like Earth itself.
But no matter how far up you go, the ground will always be not too far down. Just like your enemies.
The Blues are as bound to the ground as the Runners are to the sky. Some are just as fast as the free-flowers, just as skilled in combat, weaponry, speed, and agility.
That is why Faith is so very close to panicking as she just barely escapes the grips of Death while the bullets and tasers miss her by just a centimeter.
Just remember the adrenaline, she tells herself. The feel of the air rushing around you, pushing your hair back, making your eyes almost water.
The reason Runners run is not because it's their job. It's their life. It's just as natural to them as breathing. They can take one breath and run forever.
But there is something that every Runner overlooks. Running is just as dangerous as choking.
Jumping too soon, not jumping at all, tripping, letting go, the slightest mistake can push you over the edge, gravity pulling your chord as you fall to the ground.
The aforementioned skilled Runner remembered this just as she took a leap off her current rooftop to a rooftop too far below her. Her legs cycled, her arms flailed, and her eyes widened in anxiety, and in the rush she forgot to launch into a roll. She felt the pain shoot through her legs and she let out a grunt of pain, but then the bullets were back and she had to run again.
The feeling surged back through her lower nerves as she took off, her legs pulsing with every thunk thunk of her feet stomping the ground.
Once again, she had to jump. Brace yourself. she thought.
She leaped, hit another rooftop, and rolled.
As she took cover in a building and found an elevator, she remembered. She may be mortal, and she may not be able to defy gravity. But this…
This is living.