The first thing that Ari registered was the pain of his head slamming into the ground, then the air was knocked out of him with a heavy weight pressing down on his stomach and chest, and finally, he felt a strange pulse of pain in his left leg.
The world seemed to move in slow motion as he lay there for a while.
With his blurry vision, he vaguely saw people moving around and heard shouting through the ringing in his ears.
Then, everything seemed to rush into place at once as the heavy weight was lifted off of him and somebody sat him up while shaking him around, making him feel nauseous.
With his head bowed, he could hear screaming, something about an ambulance and low blood sugar, the sounds of contestants shouting, and the stages being lowered, before a piercing voice broke through and calmed everything down.
Taking a deep breath and clutching his head, Ari glared up at Caleb, who was grabbing his shoulders to shake him again with a fake concerned look on his face.
