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As if the situation wasn’t already painful and terrifying enough, Ani couldn’t feel anything, outside of that excruciating ache in her chest. She couldn’t move her own head sideways to spit up the water filling her mouth. She would’ve aspirated it if Bridget hadn’t shifted her, allowing Ani to turn and expel the fluid with a series of gags and retches.

Hot tears joined the water pouring out of and off Ani’s insensate body, which began to tremble. This she didn’t feel either, until a painful prickling began sweeping through her. Ani whimpered in between coughing gasps, slumping against Bridget’s supportive embrace, a shivering, shuddering dead weight.