I crashed onto the ground, rolled once, and pushed myself up on my knees. The momentum carried me back a few more feet across the deck before I came to a stop.
For a moment, I just knelt there.
My vision was swimming with little blurry specks, and my forehead felt like someone had slammed a sledgehammer into my frontal lobe.
My ears were ringing, my neck hurt, and don't even ask me about my pride. Because what was most in pain was indeed my pride.
"Rookie mistake," I muttered under my breath, wiping a smear of blood off my nose.
Still, instead of whining about my cracked skull, I started calling upon my Origin Card.
…Only for literally nothing to happen.
With a quick flash of panic, I realized I was unable to manifest my Origin Card. And in that same breath, an oppressive weight bore down on me, nearly pressing me flat against the floor.
