Her thoughts were too fuzzy for panic, so she accepted this with a strange calm until the sensation suddenly ended. Now she was floating, but that too was odd because she was turning slow circles in the air, helpless to right herself. The feeling was more pleasant than otherwise; she felt cocooned as if within an enormous bubble, enveloped within a cloud of warm air. Under this benign influence her body slowly warmed and her wits reasserted themselves to discover that all motion had stopped. She lay with her eyes closed, feeling oddly as though she lay with her face against a ceiling and empty air under her back…
She opened her eyes.
At first she saw nothing but blackness, which sent a buzz of apprehension shooting down her spine until the environment slowly lightened around her. Limbane
