‘Forever’, though, currently seemed to equate to the time it would take him to hit the ground. Fortunately for him, the animal part of his brain that so irritated him with such base desires as eating and sleeping had different priorities. To expedite these, the uppermost of which was ‘Don’t die,’ it had dumped a large quantity of adrenalin into Cabal’s bloodstream, and had – after locating one of the rungs by the hatch edge during a panicked fumble – affixed his right hand with a grip of stone to it. Thus, Cabal did not tumble to a lonely death on an unseen mountainside. At least, not
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