The jet stream seized them, dragging them through the cold. For thirty seconds, they were drowning sideways through the dark, lungs screaming.
Then the current spat them out the other side, and Serena couldn't tell the sky from the lakebed.
Fin swam with her in his arms, following the light at the top. Which was upside down from where they had been.
They broke the surface in a violent spray of water.
The first breath burned worse than the water had. Serena coughed until her whole body shook with it, and Fin held her above the surface the entire time, breathing like he'd sprinted a mile underwater, which he basically had.
"Are you alright?" He called over the waterfall thundering above them.
"Never better," she answered, chest heaving.
They'd just been sucked through fifty feet of enchanted water, launched through a jet stream, and ejected into another pink lake.
Serena started laughing first.
