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briefly if she should stop the elevator and take a
look. She decided against it; it was probably best to get to a
higher level if there was trouble brewing.
    She suddenly heard someone shout about no
gravity , and she almost
chuckled. What on earth were they talking about, no gravity? Just
as the thought went through her head, she suddenly felt very
lightweight. It wasn’t a feeling of dizziness, but her whole body
felt like there was nothing to it at all. It was a weird sensation
to feel as if she weighed nothing.
    Something was definitely up , and she wasn’t sure that she wanted to be in an elevator
to see it all go down. If there was something wrong with the
gravity, then they had a world of problems. She slammed her hand
down on the “Stop” button and then selected the fifty-fourth floor.
The elevator resumed and brought her to that floor. As soon as the
door opened just slightly, Carly pushed her way through the door to
the chaos outside of it. It was clear from the moment she left the
elevator that there was indeed something going on with the gravity
of Earth. There were people floating right off the ground, and she
knew it was only a matter of time before she would be doing the
exact same thing.
    Carly knew she needed to get out of the building as soon as
possible. She looked around the floor that she was on and found an
office with a retractable window. She would just jump out. It’s no big deal , she thought as she took a deep breath. She felt
so light that she knew she wasn’t going to plummet to her death.
Instead, she would start to float upward. Whether that was a good
result or not, she wasn’t sure; she just knew that being in the
building was bad news for everyone.
    She approached the window and took a look outside. It
looked worse out there than
indoors. The world was going to pot, and she hoped somebody had a
plan to stop it all. She looked around the room and at the people
doing their best to run around the hallway.
    “ Everyone needs to get out of here as soon as possible. Get
outside as soon as you can. It’s not safe in
here ,” she said.
    Many people stopped and heeded her
advice , while others looked at
her as if she had gone crazy. Maybe she had, but she knew that she
needed to do what was best for her and her family. What was best
was getting out of the NASA building and fast.
    “ You are going to fall to your death. Are you
stupid?” a woman cried
out.
    “ No , you won’t, and
neither will I. I promise you. There is no gravity left out there.
You will just start to float.”
    “ You’re crazy ! A
madwoman!”
    Carly knew she probably sounded like one , but she didn’t care. There was one thing for
certain: she was not a stupid woman.
    “ Trust me. You can watch me go first. But
please , everyone needs to get
out of here now.”
    The woman looked doubtful , but a few people stepped into the office. Carly had done
the best she could. It would be up to them now to decide to save
their own lives.
    The great thing about
NASA was that it had gravity generators that were being used to
slow down the process that was affecting the rest of the world.
That was why she still had her feet on the ground. But they were
failing and quickly. Carly looked around the office and cringed
when she saw a woman fly up to the ceiling, her head cracking hard
against it. There were a lot of accidents in the building due to
the gravity generators failing. It was only going to get worse, and
that was why she needed to get out of there.
    Carly pushed open the window and looked around. It wasn’t
going to be easy , but she
really didn’t have any other choice. It was then that she realized
that there was a small kid curled up against the wall. She quickly
glanced around to see if there was a parent nearby, but the kid
appeared to be alone.
    “ Come here. We have to get
out of here.”
    The kid looked startled that she was
talking to him. “Are you talking to me?”
    “ Yes ! Please, get up.
We have to