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It did tug on his shoulders more than a little bit, but it was nice and warm. Not that he needed warm. Nope!

He reached out to touch her hand one more time, then smiled. Okay. Awesome time for him now, right?

Exactly. Dinah didn't have any words past that, but the whole feeling of so cool-awesome-wow probably bled through strongly as she squeezed his hand, beaming at him.

Jak let go after a few more seconds, and began his long pad towards the end of the platform. They came at him with the bungee cord and the braces and everything, and he let it all happen. Happily.

A little bit later still, and he was soaring off the platform, downdowndowndowndown like a plunge off an eco platform, except now he didn't have the blue screaming in his veins, just the wind and adrenaline and--

Bziiing, he went back up, his mind rattling around in his skull.

Watching Jak fall off into nothing, Dinah had a sudden panicky moment of oh no don't let anything go wrong and then she was leaning over the railing, watching him fall and fall and fall and--- come back up, and relief and giddiness made her yell, "JAK! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Waving both arms at him, thrilled.

He was trying to wave back at her! Kind of! But all the blood was going to his head, bouncing around, up down up down up down and... up.

Just up. Jak was blinking when they hauled him in, a little like a fish. Well, a graceful fish, anyway.

Dinah was giggling a lot by the time he was back on the platform, and grabbed his hand as soon as he was extricated from the set-up to send, Wasn't it cool? Better than cool? Totally cool! Let's go again! He was still wearing her jacket, so this time she was using him as a wind-break. Brrrr. Good thing she had on a long-sleeved shirt.

It was cool! Jak agreed, grinning, but his head was still spinning a little. Totally.