Maelstrom
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Terminal velocity has nothing on Aretha Sawyer. She's jumped off fifty story buildings and fallen from ten thousand feet, completely unscathed. Maybe she's been making falling in the wrong hands a habit, but nonetheless she has always been the best at manipulating gravity to her will. However, she may be the master of the free fall, but that doesn't mean she isn't susceptible to greater heights where the existing forces do not exist for her to control. Especially when her greatest enemy is someone who's actually good in taking the four winds under her wing, and defying all the fundamental forces. Although does her conscience count as another one of her most deadly weaknesses? She doesn't know how long she could possibly stay on the grey area, when this world is brimmed with black and white.
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