[@liferusher][@AtomicNut]

Kai was quick, reflexively, but the rock had cost him. His ropes had lessened the fall but the snap of weak chord had been a nail in the metaphorical coffin as the world spun with his descent. A saving grace was the boys resilience to fighting off panic as he tried to grab hold of literally anything that could break the building momentum and prevent a fatal fall. 
For the most part it was successful till the platform passed, a mere inch from his grasping hands into a plummeting free fall. 

A loose root, a jutting rock, anything at all would suffice as the young lad desperately tried to correct his momentum, sliding a few inches before returning to free fall. When the terrible momemt had passed his vision swam, everything around him already blank from the nights sky had become even more indistinct as he groaned, eyes blurry, trying to make out the shapes in front of him.
It looked like a.. person? And something else. Too far away and too dizzy, there was no certainty to what he saw. Self preservation had him fumbling with the knife blissfully secured to his belt. On his chest he felt the reassuring presence of his father mask.

Unknown to Kai, the food he had mamaged to bring had been squished in the fall instead.