Chapter 3
She panicked.
“Don’t panic!”
She panicked some more. Her scream was so ear-piercing, that the captain covered his ears and grunted in pain.
“What’s happening to me? What- No, I’m drowning, no!”
He spoke calmly and clearly. “Just breathe and air will fill your lungs, you’re not underwater.”
“I’m underwater,” she said trembling from the cold.
He shook her by the shoulders. “You are not. It feels like that, but you’re perfectly safe up on the Iuncus, remember? I got you, nothing will happen to you.”
She relaxed a bit and hesitated. She was certain she was about to breathe in the murky waters of the ocean floor. She took a much-needed breath, just a shallow taste, then some more.
Oxygen had never felt so good before in her life.
She composed herself and straightened her bac
