The wind made them all sway in a similar way.
So long as none of them looked down, she should be fine.
There seemed to be more than usual, they must have drifted in with the storm.
They looked like those cheap Halloween skulls you get but fleshier and with tendrils.
Like something between a corpse and a jellyfish only less human and more teeth and tongue.
You'd see them from time to time in their swarms with bodies trailing underneath them.
She could see one nearby and made note of where the tendrils were, plotting a path through them.
Slowly she began to edge out, making sure her balloon moved as smoothly as the floaters.
The edge of the cluster drew closer as the wind around her picked up her balloon began to speed up.
It moved faster than the floaters and three of them moved in on it curiously.
Panicking she ran for the cluster's edge and the floaters followed.
Nobody had warned her how fast they were, nothing like the placid jellyfish they were related to!
The curious three had spotted her underneath the balloon bit the imposter
The sudden bang it caused made her trip over and the floaters closed in swiftly.
The last thing she saw was their mouths screaming down as their tendrils moved over her.
She felt nothing, her nerves destroyed in one pulse and her body very much alive.
Her body wouldn't be found until later that day and remained with the floaters til they dropped her.
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