4 Months Ago
She was drowning. Plain and simple. The ice cold water sliced over Dawn's skin like a million sharp razors. But the temperature was nothing compared to the fear sledging its way up her chest.
Water pushed inward at her flesh, rushing past her nostrils and prodding her for a way in. The pressure was all encompassing. She couldn't keep it out much longer and she knew it.
Seconds ticked by all too fast as she struggled against the ropes at her wrists, bound to god only knows what. Ignoring the bindings cutting into the skin at the base of her hands she twisted again, reaching for a resolution, her feet scrambling for purchase on anything but water. Anything for a way out of this.
An instant later oxygen slashed at the cold water on her skin and her lungs automatically dragged in a desperate breath in reaction to its presence.
She slumped forward on the cold sand, each stone cutting into her frozen flesh and marring her once perfect skin. His boots appeared before her foggy gaze and she braced herself for what would come next. She knew this night was far from over and this life would not relent so easily to what it once was.
She gulped at the air, dragging in rough breath after rough breath, clinging to the feeling of air once more inside her lungs.
"Again." He grated, and just like that the ocean surrounded her once more squeezing out any hope of escape.