Is Flying in the Rain Like Swimming?
An audiobook of Chapter twenty-three: "Is Flying In the Rain Like Swimming?"
Destiny is sick of the Quiet Room Protocol. It seems so arbitrary that one person can decide that her muscles look too tense and then ruin the rest of her day by sending her to the Quiet Room. She feels fragments of herself shattering more and more each time she is sent there.
One day in November Sam G is walking Destiny to the Quiet Room when Destiny suddenly knows with every fiber of her being that if she can run fast enough to get up the fire escape and crawl up the peek of the roof, she will be able to fly off into the night sky and all her problems will resolve by the time she lands.
She books it for the fire escape and this time makes it all the way up to the roof of the three-story Victorian house. She stands up at the peak and tilts her head back to catch raindrops in her mouth as she wonders,
"Is flying in the rain like swimming?" Up on the roof, Destiny relishes her freedom. No one can touch her in the sky, they can't carry her to the Quiet Room, force meds through her central line, pin her face down in restraints, or hand her any laminated cards.
Down below Kara and Sam G are both on their phones. The sounds of sirens of sirens pierced the night as fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances were pulling in.
To find out what Destiny does you will have to purchase this audiobook.
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