Sterling

My mind was starting to play tricks on me. I had fallen asleep and found myself in an odd dream. I was with Rain and we were swimming in some weird underwater tunnel. There were leeches everywhere. Every once in a while there would be a spotlight in the water. Rain warned me not stop swimming and to stay in the light or something terrible would happen.

Of course, this was a lot harder than I had anticipated. As she warned, I had slowed my swimming and come into contact with what humans call a mermaid. Rain freaked out and grabbed my arm. She had to pull me out of the water quickly or I would turn into a merman as well.

I was weak, I didn't have the strength to help her, but somehow she managed to get me on dry land. Things looked grim, I had already started to sprout gills on my face. "I need. . ."

Just then I woke up to a loud horn. I must have been near a light house or something. I grabbed hold of my steering wheel and turned away from the shore. According to my map I was only a few miles from DC.

When I looked up from my map, I nearly had a heart attack. There in my windshield was a green woman swimming and staring at me. She wasn't frightened, but she looked unsure of her next move.

"What do you want?" I shouted at her.

She started to swim away, but then turned back and put her hands on my windshield. It was like she wanted to communicate with me but had forgotten how. Just then she looked up suddenly, and then swam away beneath my ship very quickly.

A large net dropped in front of me gracefully. I just stared in awe, wondering what to do. Then a thought came to me, I needed to save the mermaid, but how? I had awoken before Rain told me what to do.

I decided that I had better act fast and worry about that other part later. I opened the bottom of my ship and saw the girl swimming beneath me. A look of relieve came over her as I pulled her into my ship. Then I closed the hatch and threw the switches into reverse. What was I thinking? For all I knew she could be working for the enemy.