Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

31. Shock

Shock

I had never been fully immersed

in any water, either of this cave

or in the oceans and rivers outside.

So when we fell in,

I immediately started to struggle.

My legs lashed out at nothingness,

and when I felt it,

the smooth, slimy feel

of Styx’s creature,

my heart thudded, and in my fear,

I kicked out at it,

only to find my foot met

a crevice in the cave’s

underwater wall,

and as I tried to pull

and pull, my foot

would not free itself.

I was trapped underwater,

unable to get out.