Jisoo was getting farther, the current was winning.
My legs were telling me things about effort that I was choosing not to listen to, and my lungs were starting to feel like they wanted a conversation about how I was going to need to have them soon get air.
I tried to angle harder into the current.
The current did not care.
Okay… okay okay.
I used a building to propell myself, it didn't work.
Then.
I closed my eyes.
And suddenly, I was somewhere, for a millisecond took a fast breath because water was gone and the cold was gone and then suddenly the cold was back because I was beside Jisoo and the current was trying to take both of us now.
I immediately reached for her face— both hands, cupping her jaw, turning her toward me— and breathed out once and then breathed in toward her, sharing what I had left.
