Evangeline swam as fast as her body allowed and Caspian was forced to swim at her pace even if he was practically dragging her along.
The cold water around them pulsed with a strange, unsteady rhythm and the currents changed in an unnatural pattern.
Her lungs burned within her from the strain she was putting them through, and the muscles of her legs ached… badly.
She wasn't really a gym girlie back in her last life, so her leg strength was approximately zero.
Plus she could not teleport underwater. She had tried severally while Caspian watched her concentrating like she had lost her mind and had finally decided to die in this sea.
No matter how much she pushed forward, the weight of exhaustion dragged at her limbs like invisible chains.
They had barely made it out of the Siren kingdom intact.
And now—
Now she felt the Pulmora extract was wearing off.
Too soon.
Far too soon.