Astra saw her head fall limp in front of her. "What was that?" she
called out, but nobody seemed to hear her. She took a few steps back, and
saw
her entire body was hanging limp in the skeleton's arms. "Wait, is that
me? But... but... that would mean..."
She looked down. She was standing a couple inches off the surface of the swirling water. She looked forward again; the skeleton was laying her body on the floor. She looked backwards and saw the rope, still hanging from the 20-foot drop. She looked up and saw the strangest thing: a light! And it was beconing her! She started thinking of rising towards that light, to find out what it was. She looked back down. She had indeed risen! She was among the stalactites, and Fred and Velus were below, so far away they seemed like mice. She looked towards the other side of the chamber; the skeleton seemed to be doing something with Astra's body, or was it reattaching the bones Astra had kicked off? She looked back up at the light. Could it wait? In her current state, she was free to explore the whole cave; even if she couldn't tell anyone what she found.
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