CHAPTER TEN
One of my feet fell into a deep end of the pool and the rest of my followed. My scream was interrupted by a mouthful of water as I sank into the black depths. The ghostly grasses I had earlier noticed wrapped around me, clinging to my limbs like the jealous dead. I thrashed in their hold but my struggles only seemed to tighten their grip.
By this time my lungs were burning and my head was spinning. I couldn’t tell up from down. All was shadowy darkness.
I barely felt it when an arm wrapped around my waist. There was a flash of claws and I was freed from my plant captors. My lungs were nearly empty by the time we reached the surface. Tegan tossed me onto land and I proceeded to puke up all the water I’d inhaled.
He threw himself onto the shore and crawled out before
