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Foregoing the safe route in an attempt to find your students quicker, you dash across the rocks with surprising speed. Growing with
confidence you speed up, only to misjudge the traction on one of the rocks. This rock was lower than the others, not only wearing
more algae, but also being quite wet. Sharp pain pierces your body as you plummet into the murky, frigid water. The pain blinds you
and all sense of direction is lost. You feel your shoulder jerking outside its socket with agonizing speed. You can’t move. It hurts. The
intense river water tramples over your face as you struggle to stay afloat. Your body tumbles with the river as you try to grab
uselessly for anything to keep you afloat. Another biting pain makes you cry out head hitting rocks on the bank. As you choke on
water and sink towards the river bed losing consciousness, the faces of the children flash before your eyes. You remember the trust
they held in you despite their lack of interest in the play. How they could still be out there lost without you. You feel like you’ve failed
them somehow. The already dark and murky underwater turns to black.
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