Hope is on the Oasis

Kahleem felt the weight of the world squeezing her to death. Even though she had resigned herself to death, she had lingering regrets. She didn't want to die. Her brothers and sisters didn't want her to die here.

As if to prove this fact, the sands beneath her began shifting, and she felt herself sink. A faint trace of cold air traveled through the sand. Her survival instinct awakened. She grabbed the knife attached to a rope and began moving the sands beneath her. She soft rocky surface, but she cheered in her mind. Some of the sand was falling through!

It was breakable, she scraped the rock beneath her over and over. Her effort eventually paid off. The rocks gave way, and she fell into a deep trench of water. The sand joined her. All of that mountain of sand fell through, so she dove down a bit to let the sand all fall. She waded under water until she found a free pocket to surface.