<span style="font-family:Overlock">Even as her hand managed to grip the edge of the ice, she could’ve swore that she felt it crack beneath her fingertips and that wasn’t an inaccurate sense. She also knew, though, that with the immense cold of the water she was in, she really couldn’t feel anything at all. With her whole body nearly numb, there wasn’t going to be much time to struggle at all before she simply sunk and before the water swarmed her lungs and the cold managed to stop all function that her body still somehow managed to maintain. Holly couldn’t see anything, either. All she could bring herself to do was let out a single desperate scream as she managed to pull her head above water. <br/>
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Falling back down again, her arms remained up above her head, more in a sense of defeat than anything else. That was when she felt it. Something grabbed onto her arm and the feeling alone was enough for her to get a new surge of struggle - a new adrenaline rush that might help her live just a little bit longer. Her feet started kicking, trying to keep herself from going further down, and her hand tried to grasp the arm that tried to pull her up. It was a weak hold, but it was something nonetheless. <br/>
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And then, slowly but surely, Holly found herself being pulled out of the water. A gasp of breath was drawn into her lungs when she finally could without inhaling ice and water along with it. She could feel ice cracking around her as she was pulled up and was trying her damnedest not to struggle too much - that would only break more ice. It wasn’t going very well, though. It wasn’t until she finally felt solid ground underneath her that her body began to relax just a little bit. Then the shivering settled in, though. The air wasn’t exactly warm which only made the fact that her body was soaked in icy water that much more painful. <br/>
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To top things off, she was naked. Shifting hadn’t left her with any clothes over her skin - not that that would’ve kept her warm at all after a fall in the ice, but it was a detail that managed to make things more uncomfortable. <br/>
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Her arms curled around her body in a desperate attempt at warmth, and as her eyes finally blinked open and fell upon her savior, she tried to move only to find it extremely difficult to do so. “Oh god…” she started panicking. “Help… please!” She wasn’t sure what else she could possibly say, but Holly knew she could never survive this on her own. She still didn’t even know what precisely ‘this’ was.</span>