Once again, I was overcome with a sensation of freezing. You know when you stick your ungloved hand in the snow and it gets so cold that it burns? Well, imagine your whole body engulfed in a freezing fire. Luckily, as a instinct, I had taken a deep breath before being pulled down. Even so, my lungs ached for fresh, unsalted air5r, like the kind wafted to you from a lake. My head began to spin, I needed air, now! Suddenly, a thought popped into my head, if the thing dragging me under was human, it would have to come up for air too. This thought triggered another one, which was not in the least comforting. The thing hadn't come back up yet, which could mean, it wasn't human. Almost immediately after that idea, I felt the pressure around my ankle release and then I found myself floating upwards. I used my numb arms to propel myself to the surface. My lungs felt ready to burst, black spots lept before my eyes. After what seemed like eternity, my head broke the crest of the waves and I filled my body with air. though it had a tinge of salt, it seemed like the cleanest, purest air I had ever inhaled. I was hyperventilating, I tried to slow down my breathing. Telling myself to take deep breaths. but I couldn't, I hungrily gasped and coughed, trying to get more air than was possible. I wanted ALL the air, I wanted to drain the world of it, sucking it all up for me, no one else. You can tell how long I'd been underwater. A few feet away, my assailant shot out of the water. Swimming ina circle, she turned to me. My heart thudded. One word left my mouth, "Martina."
TO BE CONTINUED...
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