Depression hit like a heavy stone tied around the hip, sinking emotions down into deeper waters where there was no light but the dimmest glimmer, and no hope for air – except what was brought with her.
Reaching at last an underwater cavern, she bedraggedly struggled onto the surface of a ledge outcropping, gasping and wheezing to clear her lungs while clawing desperately at the spear tip thrust into and broken off just above her heart’s center.
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