And then she was falling, headfirst--she looked over her shoulder to see the fountain waters at the foot of the statue rushing up at her, looking very cold and hard--

"Oh shit," she breathed, and flipped herself around, putting her fists together, filling her bones with light, "Please don't break, please don't break--"

The splash sent a spray of water several feet into the air; it was dwarfed by the thick WHUD of a second body hitting the cobblestones hard just beyond the fountain's edge.