 Post #5 Got 'em! --And crashing into anyone who wants to claim :)
Her eyes flicked and trailed across the room as she did her best to rest on the wall. She'd been perched on it for a few minutes now, just waiting for some yellow meteors to come into reach. She felt that the lesson time must be dwindling down, so she knew she had better get a move on catching this darn thing.
Finally she'd grown tired of waiting. Ok, the next one that comes by - you go for it! Got it? Good. A little internal pep talk never hurt anyone, right? She flexed her fingers in her glove and wiggled her toes inside of her shoes to ready herself for her human torpedo experiment she was about to attempt. All the way across the room, she spotted a dazzling yellow hue coming her way. This is it! It came closer and closer, passing other meteors and students who were still spinning through the air. Closer still. Closerrrr... NOW!
She pushed as hard as she could against the wall and tried to aim her body towards the meteor, headfirst the way a skydiver would do to take aim of their descent. Only she wasn't descending - and she had no parachute to stop her, come to think of it. But it was all too little too late now, because she was rushing through the open room on a crash course with this yellow meteor. She kept her gloved hand open and outreached. This little rock had her name on it.
She was flying so fast through the room due to the force of her push, that she nearly missed the meteor completely. This time though, she did not close her eyes and she did not flinch. She held her hand right out there and she caught it! "Victorryyyyyyy!" she said excitedly. As she sailed through the room she stuffed the yellow meteor into her pocket next to her blue one she'd caught earlier. When she looked up from what she was doing, she realized she was still shooting uncontrollably across the room - and it looked like she was about to run into someone!
No! was all she could think before the impact came. |