What should have began as a normal transaction between Daily Nebraskan newsstand and undergrad student soon became an epic battle for the fate of Seven’s soul.

Steven only wanted to read the Top 5 Section on his way from the CBA to Knoll, but the weather had other plans. The wind picked up as he crossed the stretch from Love Library, but despite a brief break from the Union, the wind became too powerful for Steven to finish the third point on “Fall Do’s and Don’ts” and soon overpowered the accounting major.

“I tried to put on a strong face and not let the wind know that it was bothering me, but it just kept twisting the paper around my face. I can’t hold out against that,” said a meditating Steven, rising up from the floor and lazily drifting around the room, “so I just accepted the wind into my heart and stopped struggling for a while.”

“And that’s why I’m here today, floating on a cumulus-nimbus.”

Onlookers describe the event as a strangely transcendent one, the perpetually awkward Steven casting off his terrestrial bonds and giving his life up to a mild gust of wind.

“It was…it was damn crazy, man,” explained witness Mallory Marks. “Stevens always been a little uncomfortable in his own skin, tripping over his feet, struggling with reading newspapers; but in that moment, he was the wind.”

Since his ascension into the heavens, Steven has had little to do with his past friends and family. The DailyER is his only friend now and the wind his only authority figure.

Godspeed, you crazy wind-boy.