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"Surge coht of an ocean of water I could hear the flood roaring toward us "Aric!"

He got as far as he dared, as high as he could "Hold on" Clutchingaway Behind the cap of the tallest auntlet between boulders, wrapping his other arm around o!" We each sucked in a breath

The searing water hit The explosive iht rip The ungodly force of that flood My watery screaave way

Separated

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Day 383 AF (384?)

How long had I been carried in this furious current?

Days and nights Nights and days With no regeneration One oflike fringe My collarbone was broken, my cheek, my nose Ribs cracked Skin scalded

Rain pounded, the snow a ainst the downpour, I zooh-risesBarely keeping my head above the surface

Aric, where are you? Had he lived? Or was he dead like Jack?

No, I refused to believe Aric was gone too He was the Endless Knight He was invincible

Would he believe I had died? Probably about to He would hts to reunite within a whirlpool? A vortex had caughtwith alike the ball in a roulette wheel The whirlpool was too strong! "J-just f-finish me, Circe!" My stomach lurched When I heaved, water flooded s screa breath at the surface

Wails I squinted The whirlpool had trapped Bagmen! On the opposite side of the vortex, four of the zolistened, chunks of flesh er

The circle tightened I screa hands missed my face by inches They snapped their teeth atwe’d thought they craved liquid in any form All this water around them, and what they truly preferred was inside me Bloodlust

I was prepared to die Not to be transforer

The whirlpool spun faster, faster Ever closer to the its grip The next rotation would beHow? The current swept us toward a church bell tower, the water dividing around it Survivors, three ht

The Baggers went right of the steeple; I shot left, struggling toward it with one arm Can’t catch hold! One man held out his hand for me I screamed as my claws scrabbled across the slate roof