Drown

Gasping! Can't breathe! My brain spins as I struggle against the net-like web that entangles me. The entire world is blurry, and I try to focus on something! Anything! As if that might help me catch my breath. I cannot breathe and I know if I try it will only bring my death quicker.

I flail about, struggling to get back to my environment where breath comes easy and I can focus. My whirling thoughts do not help as I can only thrash about without a real plan for releasing myself from this net that drowns me. Shapes move around me. Tall and dark. Sound, distorted and strange, made by these things that watch me drown.

My vision fades and the sounds seem to take over, becoming all I all I know. One of the shapes that stand around me suddenly speaks directly to me and I can make out the words, the sounds, but I do not understand what is said. It is foreign and frighting. "What the hell did we just catch, Bob? Looks like some sort of fish-person! I've never seen anything like it! I think it can't breathe air. Looks like it is dying..."

Even the sounds fade now as I try to draw in a last breath, the thin air provides me no sweet life like the water did. All is gone as I drown, near enough to home to hear its waves upon the shore.