The water was suffocating. It surrounded and ensnared, until it was too exhausting to continue swimming. How unfair. To lose consciousness inches from the surface, to be able to see the birds flying and the sun casting glittering waves in gold. How unfair to die by drowning.

An arm snatched the body out of the water. Dry wood was drenched with coughs of water.

“You look like shit,” Dick grunted, peering down at the person he tugged from the water. He had an easy grin, although the rest of his face was hidden behind a blue eye mask.