"Then, without warning, the wind ceased its upward dance. It just dropped, and with it went the Paperwing. Sabriel fell upwards, strapped suddenly tight, and Mogget almost clawed through the pack in his efforts to stay connected with the aircraft... The Paperwing seemed unable to halt its headlong descent. It fell, nose tilting further and further forward till they were diving almost vertically, like a hammer rushing to the anvil of the ground below" (Nix, 178).



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