Chapter ElevenLilly floated with eyes closed. She was cold and exhausted. She could almost hear her mother's advice from a time they had camped and were snowed in by an unexpected blizzard. When you're too cold, she had said, stiffen your body.
Lilly felt the pushes and pulls of the tide. Vague memories of her mother and childhood home flickered and beckoned. She slipped in and out of consciousness and felt confused and did not know to which images she presently belonged. Stiffen and stiffen again, her mother said. Then relax and feel the heat rush in.
Slowly, Lilly extended her limp body on the surface, though she had no idea where she was. Using all the energy she could muster, she stiffened, then again. She stiffened a third time but it was a weak attempt and she went limp from exhaus
