Chapter Seventy
It was like jumping from a three story building and the fall seemed to take forever. So long in fact, that when she hit, Susan almost cried out in astonishment, but she had the presence of mind at the last moment to roll into a tight tuck. She wasn’t intent on killing herself, though that would be preferable to being burned alive.
Susan smacked hard. The water engulfed her body and closed about her head like a hangman’s hood. The descent beneath the waves was rapid with the woosh of foam racing in her ears. With a sense of foreboding, Susan went down and down into the black water and fought to hold onto what little breath she had. Finally she began to slow and, with relief, she started to rise buoyed by the air in her lungs. Susan stretched, kicked with bare feet and, rea
