(Around here, Devin should know better than to think any day will be perfectly average.)
When Aly hits the water, she freezes, and sinks. Ever since she'd awoken to her title, she'd avoided putting her head underwater for any amount of time. She'd swim in the pool, sure; she'd take baths; showering was no issue at all. But being utterly submerged in water so ice-cold that it felt like her bones were cracking and crumbling was her worst fear.
She'd always been afraid of drowning, but now her fear was more than mortal. It was metaphysical. Her life would be extinguished, and so would her spirit.
She releases the little bit of air that hadn't been forced out of her lungs by her landing and watches the bubbles ascend. That's the way up. She tries to swim upwards, and wishes the bubbles were like on the Otherside, when being shoved into water in the forest that was hers made her dissolve into bubbles and return to the Waking.
That almost makes her want to breathe in and let her lungs fill with water from the canal, but she knows that won't work here.
When she's nearly close enough to breach the surface, she finds herself roughly lifted up under the arms to make the last few feet upwards and drowning drowning drowning drowning...!
The water's gone, and she takes a gasping, sobbing breath.
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When Aly hits the water, she freezes, and sinks. Ever since she'd awoken to her title, she'd avoided putting her head underwater for any amount of time. She'd swim in the pool, sure; she'd take baths; showering was no issue at all. But being utterly submerged in water so ice-cold that it felt like her bones were cracking and crumbling was her worst fear.
She'd always been afraid of drowning, but now her fear was more than mortal. It was metaphysical. Her life would be extinguished, and so would her spirit.
She releases the little bit of air that hadn't been forced out of her lungs by her landing and watches the bubbles ascend. That's the way up. She tries to swim upwards, and wishes the bubbles were like on the Otherside, when being shoved into water in the forest that was hers made her dissolve into bubbles and return to the Waking.
That almost makes her want to breathe in and let her lungs fill with water from the canal, but she knows that won't work here.
When she's nearly close enough to breach the surface, she finds herself roughly lifted up under the arms to make the last few feet upwards and drowning drowning drowning drowning...!
The water's gone, and she takes a gasping, sobbing breath.