I missed. And didn't. The instant we touched the edge of the rubber membrane between planes, it rejected me. Spectacularly and with aggressive force that felt like my insides had been dropped in a blender. I felt a huge flare of shock that it didn't recognize me the way it used to, though when we bounced out again, I gaped at the edge of the pond and the surrounding trees and the quiet sky while a flock of crows lifted off with the kind of irritated squawking that told me we'd ...