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She was drowning.
All strenth to struggle and screaming instincts of survival had left her. She can't feel that burning pain in her chest anymore. Even that freezing lake water of October didn't seem so cold now. Some kind of relief finally settled in Winona's mind.
Her body's growing numb. With one last glance of that fading dim moonlight casted above the water, Winona chose to close her eyes and let darkness take over her.
.
However she was woken up by a pair of arms violently shaking her body.
Winona tried to open her eyes but she was so tired and cold. And there was a deafening loud noise somewhere above her.
Where is she? Is she there yet?
Finally she managed to open her eyes and was greeted by the sight of her mother's crying face. Now Winona registered the loud noise around her was her mother crying her name.
Winona can't move her body even the slightest. Her limbs are frozen from the icy cold water. But from the corner of her eyes she saw Greg's dad carrying her in his arms. The same look of sorrow on his face.
So she didn't make it.
Winona wanted to cry. All of her efforts are for nothing. Just how long must she suffer?
Now her mother's shouting at her through the howling wind as her step father wrapped her with his jacket. Her mother's crying again. Those tears of hers just can't seem to stop. Her words are incomprehensible to Winona. She's still very numb and her mind can't work properly to understand anything.
"——Why?...abandon us——me and your brother...What were you thinking?! "
Why?
Now there's also tears streaming down Winona's pale face and she just let them drop to the earth beneath her.
She was so close.
Winona felt her mother holding her tightly in her arms and had her face buried in front of her unfortunately still beating heart. She can feel the vibration of her mother's chest so clearly.
Winona inhaled the cold night air in the cemetery.
She saw an enormous shadow towering over her. Through her tears blurred vision, two moon-like glowing white eyes are staring down at her in the sweet darkness of the night.
She felt the beast caressing her cheeks almost lovingly. Winona closed her eyes and whimpered.
"Why...My little girl why?"Her mother's crying turned into quiet sobbing but still as painful.
"I just want to go home."A river of sadness and sorrow washed over her and swallowed her whole. Winona suddenly found it hard to breathe.
"So come home!"Her mother's voice harosed from shouting and crying. She kept saying things but Winona can't hear them anymore.
All that she can hear was his enchanting deep voice whispering in her ears.
SO COME HOME.