He wanted time to pause here for a while, not wake up for a little longer, even though the curiosity was almost killing him inside. It was taking all his might and every cell of his body to control himself from touching her. He felt angry, trying to imagine who would have tried to harm her and what transpired that her delicate clothes were torn and tattered. She did not seem visibly hurt anywhere, there were no bleeding or scratches.
As he continued to stare at the pendant under the blouse through her torn clothes, he sensed a change in her energy. He looked up and their eyes met! She was awake! She was blinking slowly and was trying to mouth a few words. He replied, “You are safe, don’t be afraid. I am not going to harm you”. He moved closer to her slowly to hear her more clearly. It was still gibberish. He moved closer and put his ears right next to her mouth and he held his breath. It happened so fast, that he was caught off guard.
She had kneed him hard where it hurt the most and was now trying to crawl away helplessly. He curled inwards and bit his lip as the pain flowed through his body. He was absolutely stunned and waited for the pain to ebb. She was crawling dangerously close to the water’s edge and even he did not know what creatures lived underneath. Grabbing his man parts he crawled right behind her calling out,
“Stop! The water is more dangerous than me. I am not going to harm you, I promise” Just as he was about to grab her ankle, she threw herself into the water!
He cursed out loud and could not believe what was transpiring. He threw himself into the water right behind her and suddenly found himself in a completely alien world! He waited a few moments for his eyes and his senses to acclimate and looked around for her. Something large loomed around, swimming swiftly. The light above caught the shiny scales and glinted as it moved away from him. His heart was racing now. The water had numbed his hearing and he switched to sensing sound waves in the water to read the landscape around him.
There, there she was. He saw her clothes floating around her as she tried to swim in all directions. He beelined towards her but halted as something strange started happening to her. There was a glow that kept growing from her torso. It looked like the pendant was emitting a bright light. She turned to face him slowly as she kept bobbing under the water.
Her clothes floated all around her and he could not help thinking how beautiful this moment was. Their eyes met and this time everything around him started spinning! He was drawn to her at light speed or so it felt. He was moving towards her and yet she was exactly the same distance away. Her eyes were burning red like fire!
He was paralysed and yet moving towards her and yet, there she was, still away. As the dark shadowy object grew bigger behind her, he saw something heading straight for her. The shadow was way bigger now and he tried his best to warn her, but he simply could not move. His eyes widened as something massive swam up right behind her and just as he tried to scream underwater, paralysed – she turned around! The moment she broke eye contact, he felt like he had been released from a spell. She was now facing the shadow that seemed like it had no end.
As he watched helplessly, the creature opened its jaws to reveal an endless pit of teeth and innards about to swallow her whole. His reflexes returned as he swam swiftly towards her and now was right behind her in a flash. He grabbed her in the nick of time as the creature engulfed them whole and everything turned black as the jaws came down crushing down behind them.
They were inside an unknown creature, under a magical pond with no bottom, beneath the forest floor, in the middle of nowhere. Would they even be rescued alive?