Chapter 134 Below The Dock:>3

• I narrowed my eyes and searched to no avail. Whoever I saw was gone, which shouldn't have been possible. Nobody could swim away in the few seconds it took for me to look back down. I tried to recollect the brief image of her face. Surely she was real, right? I saw her so clearly right in front of me. There was no way it could have just been a hallucination.
• But there was also no way that it could have been real, as I looked around the surface of the lake for several moments. I could see for hundreds of feet in every direction, confirming that nobody surfaced to take a breath. To stay underwater in order to scare me, swim away far enough to where I couldn't see them in the water anymore, and still remain submerged for this long, it wasn't possible. They would have to breathe.
• Cautiously, I dipped my head back under the water, eyes remaining open, and held onto the ladder as I searched. After several seconds, something shifted in the mud beneath me. A few bubbles escaped my mouth in surprise as a figure rose from underneath the silt. No, not from underneath the silt, from the silt.