Kinetic Intercept

A stray rubber ball was lodged beneath the low crossbar of the coffee table. I knelt on the hardwood floor, gauging the angle. With a controlled strike from my heel, I dislodged the sphere into the open corridor. It rebounded sharply off the sofa leg and rolled toward the rug edge. I sprang forward, dropping low to trap the kinetic sphere beneath my left boot before it lost momentum. Clean deceleration. The interior terrain offers viable reactive targets.