Perditions Tale, Chapter 6: "Out of the Fire"
 

(OOC: there, I got the chapter number right this time, the last chapter was supposed to be chapter 5, but I'm a moron. ^^; )

Cesia gagged on water as she surfaced from the water. "Oh... Ow..." She moaned, every inch of her body screaming in pain. "I think... I'm just going to float here for a second..." She said as she saw the others starting to surface, <we must be extremely lucky, having all survived that fall...>

(OOC: yeah I know, unusually short opening post. ^^;; )

Vace dragged himself onto land out of the water, and layed there in pain. <That was the stupidest thing I've ever done... next to joining this group in the first place...> Vace thought, in too much pain to think or say anything else.

"Well...at least it was deep enough...and we escaped the fire...and my wings are soaked...but we live to see another day...and no moat monsters!" Jude said, doggypaddling at the waters surface.

Taim surfaced quickly. His body felt like he'd just jumped from a high place onto something hard....which, considering that was basically what he'd just done, wasn't really surprising. well, he thought, it's better than being burned to death. at least the water was deep enough to prevent serious injury. even if i did just do the mother of all belly-flops.

ooc: I doubt lynx can swim.

Lynx doggy paddled to the shore, then lied down on it, only getting half out of the water. Human bodies are so frail... He moaned to himself, not wanting to move, since anything he did made him hurt all over.

OOC: Cats can swim, it's called a doggy paddle

ooc: you can barely walk, but you can manage to swim?

OOC: Doggy paddle is the equalizer for swimming...its like crawling on land, or just falling in the air, anybody can do it automatically

OOC: He could barely walk because he used to walk with four legs, not two. Now it's swimming, and usually two limbs on top, two on bottom(Cats and humans) All you have to do is stroke with arms, and kick with legs. It's not that hard, he just had to adapt to the slight change of swimming, which is much less then walking.

Dawn laid out on the shore now amongst all the others, her body aching all over from the shock the water had had on her body as it fell from the window.

At least we aren't stuck in there or dead.