Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Four Spell Casting

Rina's POV

So, you know when your body has been through a lot, like if you work out too much and don't drink any water and then you go to bed, then when you wake up and you just can't move, no matter what you do it hurts very bad? Or you do and it hurts so bad, like you had a tree fall on you and then you got hit by a truck and then a train?

Well that is how I feel right now, I feel like I am floating and if I move at all I will fall and then I know that my life will be over. But I also know that I need to move because if I don't then I will never have what I have always wanted. I just want my life to be normal but is that too much to ask? I guess it is.

I know that my mama wouldn't want this for me and I don't either. I made myself open my eyes but all I could see was darkness and that just made my heart beat faster and faster. I hated not being able to see anything, it makes me feel claustrophobic and it brings on my anxiety.

I tried to move my hands and feet, I wanted to make sure that nothing was broken. I found that I could move them and there was little to no pain, but that didn't make any sense to me. I knew that I was covered in bruises and that I shouldn't be able to move without being in a lot of pain and passing out from it.

I knew that I had broken ribs, both of my shoulders were bruised and I still have the open wound on my right forearm, my bottom lip still hurt were I bit all the way through it and let's not forget that my butt still hurt from falling on it the night before. I told you I was accident prone.

I moved my arms and legs next and still there was little to no pain and then I noticed that it felt like I was swimming when I moved... like I was moving in water, it felt like it was all around me but how could that be?

Then it hit me and I remembered what had happened and I also knew that I should be dead right now but none of this was making any sense and I couldn't get myself to focus on anything other than I should be dead. If I was under water, then I should have drowned by now... why hadn't I or had I?

If I was still in the water that I had landed in and I was still alive then I just knew that my Mother was still watching out for me and that I just had to get out of the water somehow and get back to the altar before the moon was at its highest or I would never be able to be safe again, maybe I should just stay here and let myself drown.

There was no way of telling how long I had been out, all I knew is that it was still dark out or I am too far down to see any light that would have broken through the surface of the water.

I opened my eyes again as they had closed when I was moving my body around. I was just waiting for the pain to hit me but it never came and I didn't remember closing my eyes in the first place. I knew that my body was in survivor mode and it wasn't going to come out of it anytime soon.

I moved my arms and legs out trying to find anything, so I would know what way I would need to swim. I should tell you that I was still breathing even though I know that I was under water, I don't know how but I wasn't going to keep thinking about it just in case it stopped working and then I really would drown, that was one of my worst fears but it didn't seem so bad now.

I stopped as I felt something in front of me, I reached out further and push against it some more to see what it was. It felt like wood... but very old wood. It had to be something on the bottom of the lake, which did open up out to the sea and I knew that it was connected to the waterfall too.

What could it be? Not that it really mattered but I was curious. I turned around and put my back to it, I still couldn't see anything but it didn't matter, I could use my hands. What was strange was that I felt like I had all the strength in the world but I knew that I had used my strength up and it should have taken me days before I was back to my full strength. Maybe I was taking someone else's energy and using it as my own but I usually could tell when I was doing that and I would put a stop to it, I didn't want to kill anyone else, one was more than enough for me.