Polly struggled desperately against the rope that bound her, but to no avail. How a rope that she was guessing was made out of a beam of light was even tangible, let alone strong, was beyond her. The laser lasso wrapped around her stomach jerked her into the waters that were still unwelcomingly icy despite having been blasted by the sun's rays for at least an hour.
However if she was going down, she wasn’t going down alone. Inhaling deeply just before her head joined the rest of her body in the sea, Polly grabbed Fethar, and within moments they were both underwater.
Just like pretty much every other human being she knew, Polly couldn’t breathe underwater, or at least to her knowledge she couldn’t. She had never actually tried because she had a little more than half a brain cell floating
