Free-fall
Xander and Willow kissing on the bed brought everything screeching to a halt and her world crashing down around her ears. Loss, betrayal, grief and pain swirled around her, smothering her. The gorge rose in her throat, burning the inside and leaving a sour taste in her mouth; her stomach plummeted and she felt herself drop into free-fall. So … she barely felt it when the stairs gave way and she really did free-fall through the air and plummet to the ground. And when the rebar impaled her torso, she could barely distinguish between the stabbing pain of her wound and the stabbing pain in her heart.
