“Portal World” by Jarib Pott

And so she does. She gasps for air beneath the surface of the water, and to her surprise, it does what she needs.

She feels her diaphragm expand as the sweet oxygen spills into her pink lungs, and she pulls the heavy hand from around her throat. Launching from the lukewarm water she searches every corner of the room to finally meet the sinner behind the hand. And yet again, the shock shivers through her soaking body as she comes breath to breath with no one other than herself.

“War can play tricks on the mind, just breathe” she taunts seductively through her soft smirk. And the girl knows that her battle for brain function had only just begun.