No Acrophobia

We were at a dizzying height. The pearly flanks of the vast structure arced away to a ground far below and the surface was hard and polished like ice. Bequin slipped, and I managed to grab her before she slid away down the curve.
From up here, high in the alien sky, we could see across the lakes of fire and the vast smoke banks that rolled away for hundreds of kilometres.
…
He started to run, towards the lip of the roof, and then threw himself out in a perfect dive, arms raised. For a moment, he hung in space, then he forked his body in, executed a precise roll and disappeared into the lake of fire below.



“Xenos”, Chapter Twenty Five/Twenty Six