The flailing and coughing lasts longer when she has to work out how to float, too.
She's not even sure if this is better or worse, is the problem. If he beats her, if she drowns, if she's dropped a hundred times, well, now she knows it will all be gone by morning. What he did to her before was not gone after it was done.
But of course it's not an either-or choice. Probably. He does not seem likely to weary of commanding her to follow him. Perhaps she can just stall until she's a swan again?
If she spends all night, every night, defying him and being punished for it, she'll have no chance to write.
She splutters and coughs and gasps and manages to tread water.
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Date: 2013-04-30 07:25 pm (UTC)She's not even sure if this is better or worse, is the problem. If he beats her, if she drowns, if she's dropped a hundred times, well, now she knows it will all be gone by morning. What he did to her before was not gone after it was done.
But of course it's not an either-or choice. Probably. He does not seem likely to weary of commanding her to follow him. Perhaps she can just stall until she's a swan again?
If she spends all night, every night, defying him and being punished for it, she'll have no chance to write.
She splutters and coughs and gasps and manages to tread water.