Emily was tired. She was flying to Sydney to shoot swimwear catalogue for Aerie. It was her third job straight that week, and all of them had involved long flights. She longed for her apartment but first she’d need to spend three days in Australia. She sleepwalked past customs and found her place on the plane. After ordering some herbal tea from the flight attendant, she slipped into a deep sleep shortly after take-off. She had been asleep for several hours already when she was literally shook awake by the plane’s erratic motions. Turbulence, again. She had been through the same during a flight from London to Turkey earlier that same week.<br/><br/>She straightened her back and tried to get into a more comfortable position. Her hope of sleeping through most of the flight was now wrecked, as the turbulence seemed to get increasingly worse instead of getting better. Already the fasten seatbelt signs had been turned on. Even the flight attendant herself didn’t seem at all relaxed when she passed and tried to give Emily a reassuring smile. Eventually the turbulence turned into a roar that went through the entire plane, so loud that it made her ears ring. Almost by instinct, she closed her eyes and screamed when a shock when through the plane. When she reopened her eyes, the cutting cold feeling of wind circulation was the first thing she became aware of, before she realized that there was a sudden end to the aisle… And then she felt the falling sensation.<br/><br/>The plane had broken in half, and the part she was in was plummeting to the ocean below. She screamed but her voice did not seem to carry any distance in the ruckus and capaphony of sounds all around her. She briefly lost consciousness and was submerged under water when she awoke. She composed herself instead of panicking and undid her seatbelt. Thankfully, the exist to the sinking plane was only a couple of dozen feet ahead of her and she used her strong limbs to swim herself out of the metal coffin. After reaching the surface, she saw land in the distance and proceeded to will herself towards the shoreline, one swimstroke at a time.<br/><br/>It was a long time before she finally crawled on land, and when she finally did, she collapsed after walking a couple of yards away from the waterline. She lost consciousness again…<br/>