“The current seized me straight away, turning and buffeting and dragging me until I had no idea which way was up, whether I was swimming or falling, or drifting or diving, or whether I would ever surface again. My lungs protested and my eyes filled with scratching silt and murk – but just as I was beginning to wonder if this had all been a huge mistake, I saw concrete steps shimmer out of the murk and a steel door lit by a bare, unshaded lightbulb that swung in the current.My feet in their stupi...d heels hit something hard and, as I stumbled, I was half aware of the swirling waters, but also of tumbling painfully down a short concrete staircase and hitting the floor at the bottom with a thump that ripped my jeans and took the skin off one knee.I stood up painfully and looked about me. I was at the foot of a flight of concrete steps, in a subterranean corridor. It might have been the underground car park of an office block. There was a smell of damp and the sound of water dripping somewhere far off – but my clothes and hair were dry.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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