Marshall was taken aback. “You want to take a photo?’ “Yeah. This is my first time skydiving, and I want to cherish this moment,” Stella said.
“I don’t have an action camera.”
“Let’s just take a few shots before we exit the cabin. Is that okay?”
Marshall smiled. “Of course. I just think that the photos may not look as good without an action camera.”
Stella unlocked her phone and said, “They will be.”
She then turned on the camera, took a few selfies, and tossed her phone aside.
After that, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes. “Let’s do it,” she said.
Marshall chuckled and teased her. “You look like a warrior on the guillotine.”
Just as Stella was about to say something, Marshall jumped out of the helicopter with her.
The cold wind instantly struck Stella’s face like needles, and the ear pressure imbalance caused her intense pain. Apart from the deafening buzzing sound, she could not hear anything else. The fear of death left her voiceless.
She only came back to her senses when Marshall tapped her shoulder and held her hand, signaling her to open her arms and bend her legs.
After the parachute was deployed, their descending speed slowed down. The wind stopped hurting her face and the overwhelming fear that had choked her gradually faded as well. Stella looked at the vast land below through the goggles and truly experienced how insignificant humans were in the universe.
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