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I saw a fastercurrent ahead and I waded for it as arrows started plunking into the water all around me I inhaled deeply and dived forward into the fast current I al current of the river slaed me downriver

I didn't dare come to the surface My life depended on it, but it was hard to justify as s felt as if I was about to die at any moer and I tried to come to the surface, but there was a proble I sank further In desperation I sank to the bottoasped in ain Again I struggled to get to the air above, only to sink

I gave up and prepared to push off the bottoain My drawn up feet cao up In panic I glanced down in theof h to realize that my feet were stuck fast in the mud at the bottoood I was stuck fast

My lungs were burning and infast and it had teeth!

I fell over backward as teeth fro jaws of a crocodile swiped at where I had just been standing upright The green scaled beast started to beat its way past ain

In a desperate act of insanity I reached up and latched onto it as it swam overhead My hands clasped onto the plate-like arth I held on

What was I doing?!!!

I was getting free! That hat I was doing!

Thinking was difficult, because my need for air was so vital, but the realization that I was no longer stuck fast to the river botto somersaults and barrel rolls in its desperation to be rid of le we crested the surface of the river and I let go and grabbed hold of a dead tree branch Out of breath, but driven by fear, I hauled myself up out of the water onto the dead tree that had been uprooted by erosion along the shoreline