Arch jump

My whole leg was on fire. | tried to jab Riptide into the Chimera’s mouth, but the serpent tail wrapped around my ankles and pulled me off balance, and my blade flew out of my hand, spinning out of the hole in the Arch and down towards the Mississippi River.

Father, help me,’ | prayed.
| turned and jumped. My clothes on fire, poison coursing through my veins, | plummeted towards the river.
 I'd love to tell you | had some deep revelation on my way down, that | came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.
The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!
The river raced towards me at the speed of a truck. Wind ripped the breath from my lungs. Steeples and skyscrapers and bridges tumbled in and out of my vision.
And then: Flaaa-boooom!
A whiteout of bubbles. | sank through the murk, sure that | was about to end up embedded in fifty metres of mud and lost forever.
But my impact with the water hadn’t hurt.

 TLT ch.13,14