and falling ... . minutes that passed like hours later she managed to catch her breath somehowand then she was decelerating , floating like a feather towards some unseen stopping point , some invisible ground level ... . she was abruptly standing againshe could feel the ground push up against the bottoms of her feetand now diffuse white light , just a spot of it , growing ahead of her , growing and focusing , overtaking her , splitting into colors , into shapes , resolving ... she found herself facing an incredible edifice .