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Lorcan threw Roy overboard and jumped in after him. Mori and Orla followed. Roy sank like a stone, and he was too heavy for Mori to pull to the surface. Lorcan swam to her and grabbed Roy, floating to the surface with his unconscious body. The boat had not sunk yet, and it blocked their view of the monster. The group quietly tread water, moving silently toward something that looked like land in the distance.
When they looked back, they saw more lightning strike the boat, causing it to catch fire and explode. They swam for what seemed like hours to them, but finally came to a small island where they could drag their tired bodies from the water and flop in the sand. The sky in the direction from which they’d come looked inky black, illuminated here and there with lightning bolts.
Mori
