Elias fell before his brain accepted that the floor was gone.
The first instinct was panic. His arms spread, his legs kicked, and the green suit tightened around his torso as if it could hold him together by pressure alone. The chamber around him had no clear walls, only floating platforms, rails, and the black shape of a pit far below.
Text lit along one moving panel as he dropped past it. Obstacle Three, Gravity Shift Zone. Spatial orientation changes every ten seconds. Maintain awareness. Falling counts as simulated death.
"Maintain awareness is a rude instruction during falling," Dots shouted from somewhere above him.
