Under the surface [Peaky blinders]

Préface

Barbara was drowning deep in the dark waters. She couldnt see a thing and what she could hear from the surface was not good : people shouting, crying for help and constant gunshots. Suddenly, her vision cleared up, the water was stained by blood. Bodies were falling slowly into the waters, passing before her eyes, their face frozen into a state of terror, afraid of what is to come next. Some of them seemed familiar to her and that scared her even more.

What happened ? Where is she ?

She tried swimming to one them, to try and help them, but with every brass she took they seem to get chased away by the courant.

Where is she ?

She was beyond confused, she must be dreaming. Weirdly she wasnt bothered by the water coming in and out of her lungs, what a strange feeling, almost relaxing.

Then, the noise amplified, she could see fire at the surface and now all the bodies who were falling slowly, came alive their white rotten eyes and their mouth wide open, desesperately mouthing her name while coming towards her. She panicked tried to get away. They were coming from all sides, she could hear her heart erratically beating out of her chest, fear now paralyzing each of her limbs, She was surrounded, She couldn't escape. Now she begun to feel water choking her, she was going to die , she would become one of those floatting corpses with no one to help her. Would her family mourn her ? Would they even know where to find her ?

As she closed her eyes, accepting her fate, one hand came from the surface gripping the thin shirt she just realised she was wearing, she could see the light from the surface getting closer and closer. This hand was getting her away from death. She was minutes away from meeting its owner, the one that saved her from those ghosts. She could vaguely make up a silhouette of the person at the surface, it was man and he was saving her.