A nice cup of rabies

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

...

Changing, the bureaucrat fell to the sea.

- Michael Swanwyck, Stations of the Tide

The bomb lives only as it is falling.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

"I ached to fall."
- me, in Inhatti's description.

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The whole of the book lies between those two lines from Swanwyck.

The Banks line is from the epigraph to the book, a poem pretending to be written by one of the story's characters.

The self-quote is the last line of a muck character description that intentionally breaks a lot of the rules of that form.

Why do lines about falling cling to my head? Admittedly, the third one has an intentional "fallen angel" theme at times - there's a quote from Satan's monologue in Milton in her pinfo.

Is sympathy for the Devil a shamelessly teenage thing? Eternal rebel, outcast. And so so pretty.

I get pompous when I'm getting sleepy.

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Twin's reappeared on Puzzlebox for a couple days in a row, now. Still bound by history, I suppose. Someone asked (her) to tell a story tonight and (she) gave a semi-mythic overview of (her) story so far, that elliptically referred to the way it really just... stopped. (She)'s gotten a little snarky due to the exile I forced on (her), I suppose.

Twin's arguably a creature who descended, too, but in (her) case it was quite by choice. And not an uncontrolled fall.

If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.