On the highway, where normally only the sound of speeding cars and the monotonous rhythm of tires on asphalt predominate, lies, almost unnoticed, a rectangular piece of artificial grass, so green that it almost seems a mockery of the barren verges that surround it. The cars that rush past, some with a slight slowing in their speed as if their drivers are momentarily hesitating, drive calmly and without much fuss around it, as if this artificial island is nothing more than an innocent interruption in the flowing asphalt of their journey. No honking, no brakes, just a silent acceptance that here, in the middle of the highway, the inexplicable can happen.
Jump plateau.
Even above the vast plains, where the wind had free play and the senses were stimulated by the smell of both fear and excitement, the group of bungee jumpers, equipped with their nervous straps, stood at the edge of the jumping plateau, the end of reality and the gateway to the unknown. Their eyes were pinned like needles to the elastium, the powerful but deceptively flexible rope that within moments would embrace them in a dizzying dance with gravity.
