[quote=@PlatinumSkink][color=ded0a4]‘FLYING BOY! CURL INTO A BALL!’[/color] [/quote]

Luca did as he was told -- an instinct drilled into him during various zero-G recovery drills. Truthfully, floating weightless was not a large ordeal for the boy -- these things happened. It was strange, but not unheard of, for it to happen so abruptly, though his primary schooling had rather emphatically insisted that well failures could occur at any time, in any number of surprising ways. They were perhaps over-cautious; but nevertheless the instincts were there, and Luca was calm. In the moments he floated, he had time to survey the battlefield and consider all the strangeness that had befallen him since waking. The moments were fleeting, but he saw the metallic explosion -- and a stricken compatriot -- and of course the plate-clad combatants struggling over the arrow. And Donny, maybe the strangest aspect of the whole scene to Luca. Nothing was so strange as a man who would murder three people (or six? Five? What was the tally, and how many were real?) for the crime of standing in the road. Of all the chaotic elements, Donny was the one that made Luca shudder.

He shuddered while curling into a ball, though. Were he to land, he intended first to see to the comrade with the spike through her backpack. She seemed rather poorly off.