Tatehan had made himself light: impossibly light, just before he hit the ground.
He'd manipulated his own gravity, reducing his weight so drastically that the wind caught him, swaying him like a leaf falling from a tree. The impact that should have shattered every bone in his body, that should have killed him instantly, was reduced to something merely devastating instead of fatal.
But it still hurt like hell.
He fell like no leaf, he didn't fall with that grace, instead he fell with a Thud! but less impactful than it should be.
His kinetic absorption armor—the [70% absorbed, 30% impacted] safety mechanism, hadn't activated. He'd already used it three times during the fight with Cherak in the sky, and the cooldown hadn't reset. So he'd taken the full force of the landing, even lightened as he was.
