Charis
When the lights went out, I was too stunned to move.
The pain that had been building all evening seemed to have spread from my chest to my limbs, leaving me frozen in place. I just stood there, trying to understand what was happening, then suddenly, I felt multiple hands grabbing me.
"What—?!" My protest was cut off when someone lifted me from the ground, and before I could fit back, I felt myself sailing through the air. Bracing myself for the impact I would feel hitting the ground, I closed my eyes.
But instead of the ground, my body hit water with a loud splash. The shock from the icy water shot through to my brain, making me sink to the bottom of the pool. For a moment, all I could feel was the burn in my lungs and the deeper, stranger burn in my veins.
As if realising that I was at the bottom of the pool, I suddenly pushed myself upward and in seconds, I'd broken out of the surface of the water, sputtering, shivering violently and gasping for air.
