Billy
The point of the water tank was to teach me how to hold air into my force fields and to get them up quickly. You see, I had to encase myself in a force field after I was pushed from the board, (before I hit the water,) and hold it, with all the air in it, as I sank to the bottom of the fifty-foot tank. If I let the force field down, I would either drown or be crushed under the pressure. If I didn't get it up in time, or got it up to early, I would be electrically shocked. So I needed to get it. And let me just say, It was not easy keeping it up until they let out the water.
I was thinking about the pressure of the dark, cold water when I was shoved from behind for the fifth time that day.
I immediately dropped. Luckily, I had instinct. I snapped my arms straight out in front of my and spread them in a half-circle around the front of my body. The clear force field then, slower than I would have liked, spread until it encased me. It was all suddenly quiet, and outside was blurry. I like my fields. They cut me off from the torture that was my life.
Anyway, like I said, it encased me slower than I would have liked, and so a bit of cold water got in before I sank. I always bobbed twice, I don't know why. Then I sank. I went pretty slowly, and the pressure to keep my force field around me was getting harder. I had to keep my arms up, you see, so it wouldn't break. I started to sweat.
I sank deeper and deeper, and the pressure grew greater and greater, until I couldn't stand it. Sweat poured out of every pore in my body, and I wanted to scream. I had been doing this for a while, and it was very exhausting both mentally and physically. You might not think that, but it's true. You lose concentration, the force field drops. If you don't have the strength to hold it physically, though, it slowly shrinks until it crushes you. That's why I wanted to scream, but, like I said, that would mean letting go of my concentration and then the water pour in. And that would mean my death.
I had to hold on… had to hold on…
Don't let go! Don't drop it! Don't drop it!
DON'T!
I dropped it. Water rushed in, quick as you like. I was immediately suffocated in pressure, and thrashed around as if that would do anything. I opened my mouth to scream….