sensation of flying

[Tinkerbell]

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying, another thing I’d kind of expected from magical travel. Instead, everything was very still as the blackness pressed down on me.

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying or another thing I’d kind of expected from magical travel. ??

or,

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying. Flying is something I'd expected from magical travel. ??

 

[emsr2d2]

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying, another thing I’d kind of expected from magical travel. Instead, everything was very still as the blackness pressed down on me.

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying or another thing I’d kind of expected from magical travel. ??

or,

There wasn’t even the sensation of flying. Flying is something I'd expected from magical travel. ??

I assume here that "magical travel" is like some kind of teleportation or something like that.

If so, then the writer means that when travelling "magically", he/she did not even feel like he/she was flying, which was a feeling he/she had expected.