Chapter 74: Not Intimate, Survival

"Kick your legs Charli." Greiken muttered. "We need to move faster and get onto land. The longer we stay in the water, the higher chance we will die of hypothermia. We still need to find a safe place and make a fire or we will not make it either."

This deep fear that there's something lurking underneath me waiting to drag me under at any moment haunted me horribly and I was shaking, both from fear and cold. I tried to kick as fast as I could, but the fear threw my rhythm out of beat.

"To the left." He called out and we kicked to the left when the river split in two. "There's a waterfall coming up." He moved closer to me and held me tight. "Brace yourself."