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Tate backed away With nowhere to go

Finally, the door could hold back the water no longer It burst froe, a tsuna in

Tate open his s, and the last thing he felt was the agonizing pressure of a thousand feet of water crushing the life out of him

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As Juan sank into the fjord, he opened his eyes and saw that he was far enough from the surface that darkness had closed in around him With all of his extre his li lazily with the currents He was too tired to care His mind must have been numbed as well He felt oddly relaxed, as if he were in a sensory deprivation chamber

Still, he resisted the urge to inhale as long as he could He could sense the slowing of his heartbeat and realized he ht be able to set a new personal record before he had to breathe When he did, it would be his last I’ll go out on a high note, he thought

Then soed At first, his mind was so fuzzy that he couldn’t tell what it was Finally, he blinked and understood

It was getting lighter He wastoward the surface

He couldn’t be swith nor the will toit involuntarily and noticed so metal on his arot closer to the light

The shinyhim upward They were jointed Like hands, yet different

Not hands Claws A robot’s claws

The surface was close now, but Juan couldn’t fight the coer He convulsed as he sucked water into his lungs

At the sa went black

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When Juan ca on his back with heat packs and a ther hiain