Exhilaration and adrenaline rushed through me, and I braced myself. I squeezed my eyes shut, and suddenly, it was like my entire world toppled over onto its axis.
With a deafening whoosh! that about scared the life out of me and made me instinctively squeeze Grady even tighter, I felt my feet leave the ground, and everything started spinning. The whoosh! didn’t abate—it just became louder and louder, till I couldn’t even hear myself think. I couldn’t help but scream, but I couldn’t hear anything but the whoosh!, as wind wildly whipped my hair around. I clung to Grady while desperately searching for solid ground with my bare feet. Bright, pulsing lights flashed before my tightly closed eyelids.
In an instant, it was over. I felt grass beneath my feet, but I couldn’t stay upright if I tri
