Big Salmon Lake I got used to living without you

Fennec heard him disappear and, without a single pause, she plunged in after him. The sound of it would haunt her after, as would the thought of what might have happened if she hadn't turned around. She'd almost kept going.

If it turned out differently, that is.

Her only thought was finding him. She swam frantically, thrashing towards where she thought he was beneath the water, grasping for anything she could hold onto that could be used to pull him to the surface. Every second she met only water drove her further down. She wouldn't come up without him.