Your body is practically horizontal as the powerful winds gust around you, your fingers holding desperately to the flat edge of the of the grate bar. As the adrenaline rushed through you, you slowly start to pull yourself up. You get first one arm over the edge, and then the other, and you finally manage to pull yourself back into the grate, just as your aunt comes into your sisters room to ask if she's seen you. Using the flat bar that you'd just been gripping for dear life, you brace your back against it as the chilling winds continued to crash into you, the occasional dust ball or clunky debris hitting you.
You waited out the storm, not really able to hear anything but the wind and unable to move at all for fear of being blown out. Eventually, the AC turned off, the absence of noise making you ears ring. Getting up on wobbly legs, you continued on through the vents, not knowing who you can trust and not wanting to risk making a mistake. With the vents so dark and the metal slippery with dust and general smoothness, you are unprepared as you suddenly step and loose your footing. in a matter of seconds you are sliding uncontrollably across the cool metal, until there's nothing beneath you to slide on anymore.
with a scream, you plummeted down wards. The wind is rushing through your hair, making your eyes water as you're too afraid not to look and see where you might be going. Finally, you see a light. You're approaching another vent, but you have on way to stop as you are falling right for a broken slat that allowed you to fall right through.
squinting your eyes against the sudden brightness that came with being outside the vents, you saw nothing till you landed on something soft and slightly bouncy. When everything finally stopped moving, you dazedly prop yourself up on your elbow and look around.
your eyes widen as you see that you are...
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