I was suddenly alone.

I had had someone with me in this dark place to protect me.

And now, they had just.

Vanished.

I wanted to scream, to cry out:

"Hey, where are you? Where do you go? Come back, it's dark and I'm afraid of the dark! Help!"

Back my lungs were full of liquid, as they had been.

But I hadn't noticed it until this exact moment.

The moment I was left alone.

Alone, lost, afraid; all, in the dark.

Then, light.

Just bright and beautiful and glorious as anything.

I needed the light.

I craved it.

I swam towards it then pushed through the small opening.

But something was wrapped around my neck.

Something cordlike.

Something that made it hard to breathe.

I wanted to cry out in the glorious light.

To sing to it in praise.

But the cord kept me from it.

Just as suddenly as the light had come, the cord fell away from my neck.

"Quick thinking, Phil." Someone breathed down in shock and admiration.

Phil.

Whoever Phil was, I now owed him my life.

But now, I could sing.

And so, I did.