A Leap of Faith!
There is a moment before every leap of faith where the mind offers all its reasons to stay.
It lists the things that could go wrong. It measures the drop. It reminds the body of every limitation it has ever learned, every wall it has ever struck, every time the ground proved harder than hope. The mind is very good at this. It has kept countless beings safe and small and exactly where they started.
But once a being ignores all of that and leaps anyway, something happens. The limitations it spent its whole life believing in turn out to have been drawn by its own hand. The walls were never walls. They were lines, and the leap crossed them, and on the other side of the crossing the being discovers it was capable of far more than the careful mind had ever allowed it to attempt.
Damian took a tremendous leap of faith!
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He appeared in space.
