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- Just then, I felt the snap of magic rushing back into the Oceanarium as the enormous symbol collapsed and the circle fell.
- I took my frustration and rage and turned it into raw force, screaming, "Forzare!"
- I didn't direct it at Tessa and her crew.
- I aimed it at the glass wall that was the only thing between all of us and three million gallons of seawater.
- The force of my will and my rage lashed out and shattered the wall into powder.
- The sea came in with a roar, one enormous impact that felt like the strike of a hammer being applied to every square inch of my body at once.
- Then it was cold.
- And black.
- Small Favor Chapter 33, Page 276
- The next thing I knew, I was coughing, and my chest hurt, and my head hurt, and everything else hurt, and I was colder than hell. I choked in a breath and felt my body getting ready to send up everything. I tried to roll onto my side and couldn't, until someone pulled on my coat and helped me.
- Fishy salt water and whatever had been in my stomach came out in equal proportions.
- "Oh," someone said. "Oh, thank You, God."
- Michael, then.
- "Michael!" Sanya shouted from somewhere nearby. "I need you!"
- Work boots pounded away at a sprint.
- "Easy, Harry," Murphy said. "Easy." She helped me turn back over when I was done puking. I was lying at the top of the stairs to the lower level. My lower legs were actually on the stairs. My left foot was in cold water to the ankle.
- I put a hand to my chest, wincing. Murphy smoothed a hand over my head, brushing hair and water away from my eyes. The lines in her face looked a little deeper, her eyes worried.
- "CPR?" I asked her. My voice felt weak.
- "Yeah."
- "Guess we're even," I said.
- Small Favor Chapter 34, Page 278
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