Zero Conditional

I felt not only weak at the knees, but also in my bones. My bones felt as though they were about to crack.

My bones were about to crack. And what was even more alarming, suddenly, the distance between me at the top of the white dress and the ground seemed to grow.

I saw there was a bench, just off the path to my left.

A problem, which seems to involve a zero conditional:

How do I get from the path to the bench?