89. Intermission: Awakening

Coming to Consciousness under the thin veil of murky water. Mathias felt as if his lungs were about to burst. As his body all but roasted within the tub of water. And if he dared to inhale in such water. He knew his insides would be boiled to the point of no return. To the point he would die.

Keeping that thought in mind. Mathias struggled to keep what little air remained in his lungs there. To keep from taking that desperate breath. Struggling he would feel himself changing within the waters. Feeling his entire essence being rewritten. It was a pain he had never felt before. One he wished would just stop. But this wasn't about comfort. It was about what he was willing to give up. In order to protect those from what goes bump in the night.