" I could barely breathe through the agony, but I heard Rahim call out, “Is everyone still alive?” “Yeah, call out if you’re dead,” Sam added. And Shazad laughed. Then I was laughing, too. And I couldn’t stop. Because it was ridiculous and impossible, what we had just done. But I had managed it. And we were all still alive. And we were almost at the end. "

― Alwyn Hamilton , Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands, #3)