He paused. He looked out over the strange world he called his home. It had not been his home for long, but his old home had cast him out. Besides, he didn’t feel that the old home fit anymore. He braced himself, then hurled himself into the glowing, greenish blue abyss between the piece of land he had just inhabited and the landmass he sought to reach. In our world, one would be inclined to think that gravity would pull him to an early grave, but gravity worked differently here. As he plunged through space, the gravity of the hundred-foot wide, floating sphere he had leaped toward grabbed him. He had been travelling quite quickly past it, so momentum and gravity pulled him toward it in a rapidly decaying orbit. He completed a single downward spiral as he streaked around the giant ball and