Flash Flood!

It was lucky Crux didn't say anything about her disability. If he had, she would have thwacked him on the nose. She was fine, and her one and only concern right now was getting him out. However, despite plunging in here she knew nothing about caves and flooding. Her swimming skills weren't anything to applaud, but they were enough to get her around. What she hadn't expected was how quickly the cave would fill. Even as she finally reached him, the cave would be nearing fill. She had slightly longer to suck in air with her tiny nose touching stone. But panic was beginning to settle in. The idea of the water rushing over her body, and nowhere to go… she couldn't even talk to Crux. She cast one wide eyed look at his submerged head and then she was under.


She felt a tug on the rope that told her Crux had grabbed it too. She started to swim back up it. At least they had an anchor against the current. She swam, and she swam. Her lungs felt fit to burst and her throat began to tickle. Her only warning of a seizure to come. There was nothing she could do. She paused on the rope. Her paw reached for Crux. Her eyes open beneath the murky water. She could just make out his shape, her eyes wide and fearful before her throat gave up on her. She started to hack, breathing in lung fills of water. Instead of the water soothing the pain in her throat, it made it so much worse. She could feel her crystals biting into her flesh. Pain. In her throat, in her lungs. There was blood in the water, she couldn't move, she couldn't go any further forward. She thrashed as her vision began to blur, and then unconsciousness found her.