Like Jonah from the whale

OOC: I'm in the process of having his name changed to Sunder so that will be why some things don't add up lol

A little under halfway between Scaled Island and the mainland Sunder realized the mistake he'd made. The gravity of it hit him quicker. He had underestimated the toll the icy water would take on his already weak legs. In a panic he'd tried to turn back but his efforts were in vain; the undertow was too much for him. It seemed, however,that his fate was not to drown in the sea. For the second time he was miraculously spared a watery grave; his head somehow breaking the surface just often enough to sustain him.

Too weak to haul himself to shore, Sunder had no choice but to let himself be slowly pushed from the water by the waves when he finally made land. He lay sprawled out on the black sand as though spit up by a great beast. Sunder promised himself to get up after a quick breather, but no matter how long he lay there it didn't feel long enough. Minutes slipped by, possibly an hour, without him budging an inch more. Were it not for his relentless shivering he could have been mistaken for a corpse. He was just...so...tired.