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Adrift In tiain Ato the sides, the current rushed straight for the center Would I be bashed against the side?

My eyes widened when I saw the path of the water drop--into a tunnel I was heading right for it!

Seconds later, I ept down into that pitch darkness Total black Can’t see, can’t see! I kicked to keep my head above the surface For air--and to hear

Wails echoed off the tunnel walls I jerked my head around, unable to pinpoint the sounds Debris battered ht

I bu afloat With a cry, I latched on to it withlike a cork My skin was so nuhtened to ain Out of the tunnel!

I blinked at ain A skull-and-bones tattoo? A bloated belly I was clinging to a headless, limbless body

"Ahhh!" I flailed away, but it seemed to follow sidehard Metal gouged my skin I craned ainst the structure, pinning my back and arroaned in the waves, swaying

More Bagmen sped toward me I was completely vulnerable, laid out for a bite If they turned me into a zoame would be won By an Arcana ould never quite die

The Baggers thrashed to reach me, pale eyes frenzied The flood defended s

Ah, God, a house rushed toward ritted my teeth and somehoisted my body to face the tower With one ar out of that lake of lava unhar forsher Meony ripped at my chest as I recalled my last words with Jack He and I hadwhite

Another rung The house bore down ontoithin inches I wouldn’t be so lucky next tiusty top of the tower, I coiled hed till I sobbed

Jack is dead

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Day 385 AF?