The 100-word challenge was to use the word "fall."

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She was beautiful; the sort of beauty that made his heart stop, then race to catch up. And she loved him—she'd said so. In that instant all the regrets, everything he'd wanted to but never said, seemed a little easier to bear. Her courage left him in awe once again.

Han felt the platform begin to fall away beneath his feet, the swirling cold already beginning to wrap around his booted ankles, pulling him down with an icy grip.

He found it wasn't so bad, knowing she would be the last thing he saw. He could live with that.