“Jump from here?” Alfoi asked, his voice trembling. “Are you saying we should just give up and die faster instead of agonizing over it?”

He was clinging to the basket, barely able to keep his eyes open as the hot air balloon plummeted faster and faster. The thought of voluntarily jumping from the balloon terrified him.

But Kaor, not wasting any time, quickly explained, “We can’t see how far we are from the ground from inside this thing! Even if you use magic at the right moment, we could get tangled in the air chamber, and that’ll only make things …