It's when he turns into a blur to the rest of the world that Panther sees most clearly – free from gravity, his legs commandeering the rest of his body to move just so, there is nothing that needs doing or thinking about beyond those things he chooses to do or think about. Nothing seems impossible in those moments, no place out of reach; to the boy with the zero gravity legs, after all, not even the sky poses any kind of limit.

The cheering of the crowd makes it easier to come back, to submit to gravity once more. Temporarily.