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Chapter 20: Greatest weakness and greatest fortress.

The torrent pulled her away violently as she tried to keep her head afloat. She kept concentrating on what Tsireya had taught her, thinking about home or anything at all to make her heart decrease its pace.

She could see her mother and Tuk's heads a little bit up ahead.

-Mom!-She called her.

-Liläk! What are you doing here?-Neytiri said as she turned around and held on to her other daughter's arm, keeping Tuktirey close to her as they moved through the water.

-I wasn't going to let you alone. Come on, we need to find a way out of here.-Liläk said as Tuk took her right arm, letting her healthy hand free. Even with a hurt hand she was more skilled under water than Neytiri, so she thanked her going to get them, but her fear grew as she thought about the fact that if they were trapped there, Liläk could have been safer if she had stayed up.

Tuk breathed heavily behind her, still holding tightly to her arm. They needed to keep moving, because they would find some way out eventually, right?

They reached a stair which Liläk climbed always looking back so that she could help Tuk move as quickly as she could.

-Climb up!-Her mom commanded Tuk as she followed Liläk, grasping to her right arm.

-I got her mom, we need to keep moving!-Liläk urged her, the ship was moving and it was starting to turn on its side, which made Tuk fall the moment she had climbed the stairs. Neytiri held her and pushed Liläk lightly on her back.

They moved through a hallway, but they were walking partly on the wall and partly on the floor as the ship kept unstably moving on its own axis.

Liläk was still in front of them, thankfully with all of the adrenaline she couldn't really feel her hand, which made her move faster than the two of them, if there was a way out, she would have to be the one to find it.

Tuk fell with a cry behind her, Liläk was thrown to the ground as she tried to remain standing, but with the boat's movement it was almost imposible not to waver and fall. She pushed her fear away and took Tuktirey's hand as her mom made her stand up from behind her.

They reached a door that was completely sideways, that made Liläk confirm her doubts that the ship was actually turning.

-Open it!-Tuktirey exclaimed, not being able to control her anxiety. Her mom started pulling the door with a grunt.

-We have to pull together!-Liläk told her as she positioned herself beside Neytiri.

-Your hand!-Her mother exclaimed as she kept pulling, every second was valuable.

-It'll never open otherwise.-She responded as she put her hands on the hand wheel and pulled so hard she left out a grunt of pain and effort out.

The door budged almost falling on top of the two, making a way so that they could continue moving through the ship.

-It's open! It's open!-Her mom exclaimed as she looked for Tuktirey everywhere. Liläk didn't think twice about throwing herself through the door, if there was any danger in doing so, she wanted to be first.

As they were opening the door a lot of water had accumulated, so as she was going through it she was thrown by the force of the torrent. She could hear Tuk passing through the door now, she held her arms out, wanting to grab unto her the moment she fell to her water level, but she was also being pushed forwards by the tide. Liläk grabbed to a handle on the wall, hooking her arm into it so that she didn't have to grab it with his hurt hand, while she held her other arm out.

When Tuktirey passed in front of her she grabbed her arm and let go of the wall so that they moved together.

-Liläk!-Her mother called above the noise of the flooding ship.