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Sweat ran down his forehead, running into his eyes and blurring his vision. But that was okay, he didn't need to see for much longer. He was almost there. Almost free from the monsters that were chasing after him down the dock. A quick glance over his shoulder assured him that they were still there, around twenty feet behind but gaining ground fast.
No matter. It wasn't long now.
He could barely hear his own slapping footsteps over the roar of the great body of water beneath the wooden boards mixed with the wild drumming of his heart in his chest, let alone their frantic shouting.
Soon he would be free from those disgusting villains. Soon he'd be far, far, away from them. They'd never catch him, not ever again.
Despite the shrieking panic slowly filling his head, he managed a small, crooked grin. And then a giddy laugh. The end of the dock. It was getting closer, and closer, and oh-so-delightfully closer, until...
With a screech of pure triumph, he launched himself into the churning black water in what he hoped was something of a graceful dive. As he sank under the waves, he twisted around to look up at the shocked faces of his tormentors as they abruptly stopped at the edge of the dock, mouths dropped open. They would never follow him now. And then something came to him.
Well, two things.
One was that his glasses had flown off somewhere, probably now lost forever in the water.
The second thing?
...He had suddenly forgotten how to swim.