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I wanted to float, I wanted to drift away, and each moment it became harder and harder not to do just that. I held to what Vlad told me, and I waited in the darkness. Fear- and after a while, boredom, over took me, no longer able to feel what was going on, or see or anything. There was blackness, and a drifting feeling that I could not allow myself to give in to.

Then I heard voices, two voices. For a moment, I was sure they were the voices of children, a boy and a girl, but then I realized no, they were the voices of my friends. Edwards nervous tenor, and Vlad's deep baritone, both calling to me. I could almost see them, almost feel their hands, pulling at me, almost....

I woke up in darkness, with their arms around me. I breathed in. And in. And in, until my lungs were full to bursting. And they didn't hurt. It was... incredible.