The Message
“I fell for what seemed like a very long time.
PAH-LOOOOSH!
I hit the water feetfirst and plowed beneath the surface in a pillar of bubbles.
The cold shocked me. The water was like ice. And just a few feet away was the intimidating steel wall of the tanker, sliding past at what felt like incredible speed.
I kicked my feet and began to rise to the surface. I’ve been a swimmer since I was little, but it frightened me, being this far out in water this deep. This wasn’t a pool or a pond. This was th...e ocean. Twenty miles from land.
I broke the surface and gasped a lungful of air and a mouthful of salt water. What had looked like a little choppiness from up in the ship felt like towering waves down here. I couldn’t see any of the others. All I could see was the side of the ship.
Come on, Cassie, I told myself, morph. Do it. This is no place for a person.
There is just about nothing as helpless as a human being in the ocean. Without my ability to morph I would not have lasted an hour.
I felt the change begin as I focused on morphing.MoreLess
PAH-LOOOOSH!
I hit the water feetfirst and plowed beneath the surface in a pillar of bubbles.
The cold shocked me. The water was like ice. And just a few feet away was the intimidating steel wall of the tanker, sliding past at what felt like incredible speed.
I kicked my feet and began to rise to the surface. I’ve been a swimmer since I was little, but it frightened me, being this far out in water this deep. This wasn’t a pool or a pond. This was th...e ocean. Twenty miles from land.
I broke the surface and gasped a lungful of air and a mouthful of salt water. What had looked like a little choppiness from up in the ship felt like towering waves down here. I couldn’t see any of the others. All I could see was the side of the ship.
Come on, Cassie, I told myself, morph. Do it. This is no place for a person.
There is just about nothing as helpless as a human being in the ocean. Without my ability to morph I would not have lasted an hour.
I felt the change begin as I focused on morphing.MoreLess
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