<div style="text-align: justify;">She laughed and coughed - more than anything, she <span style="font-style: italic">rattled</span> at him. <span style="color: #4080FF">"Scared ya to death, good one,"</span> she said, grinning despite holding on to both a rock and Dimitri for dear life. <span style="color: #4080FF">"Gotta tell ya, ya the most handsome ghost I evah seen."</span> Now that she was getting over the shock of almost drowning, she couldn't help but be intrigued. So <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> was what it was like! Not that she would ever care to do it again, but it made her feel strangely elated to have had such an utterly human experience: dying underwater. Admittedly, she also felt very stupid for not having realized that sharks of course did not live in fresh water. <br/><br/>Patting his back gently to calm him down, she repeatedly assured him that no, it was fine, they didn't have to find another place, it would be too far to go and swimming here actually had worked, even if not very well. <span style="color: #4080FF">"As long as I don't go completely above for twennyfour hours, I'll be good. And this here rock will look out for me,"</span> she said calmly and tapped her nails briefly against it. <span style="color: #4080FF">"We'll have to tell ya folks about it, though. I don't have to really go in before tomorrow, but I dunno if it would be easiah just staying here for the next twennyfour hours?"</span> Alannah clearly thought so, if the pleading look in her eyes were anything to go on, and she bumped her nose against his cheek, since she lacked a free hand.</div>