Handy landed heavily, having clearly not looked at where he was leaping but simply seeing an opportunity and going for it, crashing to the ground in a sprawl of limbs. He scrambled to his feet despite the fall from such a large height. Meranax’s eyes sprang open and were immediately awash with a ghostly green glint. A sickening smell erupted from her gullet, and words formed by tortured vocal cords uttered obscene and incomprehensible sounds that pained the ear, although her open mouth and seemingly petrified tongue did not follow the noise they made.