It feels odd, on reflection, to consider the very little we chose to do as we fell beyond diveable depths and still farther. I know it occurred to me, in a distant fashion, that an alarm ought to have gone off to alert us to a battery failure, however many hours ago. I know it occurred to me, too, that we’d need to release weights to slow our descent once we reached thirty-five thousand feet but now had no obvious way of doing that, nor any way of telling how far we’d dropped. It occurred to me that falling too fast and landing too suddenly—wherever we did eventually land—would surely result
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