“you AND HER AND LAURI ARE THE WOMEN,YOU COOK AND CLEAN AND TAKE CARE OF
         
         US.YOU HAVE TO SUIT OUR NEEDS,YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO US.” HE SAID AS ID
         
         IT WERE A LAW.FROM HER POSITION TRACT RAISED HER HAND AND DELIVERED A
         
         SHARP SLAP TO HIS CHEEK.
         
           “DON’T TEST ME JACK.” SHE WARNED.JACK’S HAND HAD FLOWN TO HIS STINGING

         CHEEK AND HE STARED AT TRACT DUMB-FOUNDED.
         
           “THERE’S FRESHWATER ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED YARDS THAT WAY.TELL DRAKE.”

         TRACI WENT BACK TO TENDNING CLAE.JACK LOOKED DOWN AT HER FOR THE FIRST TIME.
         
           “HEY,IS SHE OKAY?” HE ASKED STOOPING NEXT TO TRACI.TRACI COUGHED TO

         AVOID THE LUMP IN HER THROAT.
         
           “I THINK SHE’S JUST REALLY EXHAUSTED AND HUNGRY.” SHE LIED.JACK LOOKED AT

         TRACT.
         
           “YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIE.” JACK SAID HOTLY.TRACI LOOKED AT HIM AGAIN.

         “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S WRONG WITH HER.” TRACT SAID A MOMENT LATER.
         
         
         
         
         
              JUST A LITTLE FURTHER.SWIM OLD GIRL,SWIM.HAND,HAND,KICK,KICK.BUT THE
         
         BLACK WATER CAME AT AN UNNATURAL ANGRY SPEED.IT POUNDED HER ABOUT AND
         
         THREW HER UNDER.SHECLAWED AT THE WATER AND IT CAME TO HER IN GREAT
         
         CHUNKS OF ROCK AND COLD.OH,THE COLD.IT SEEPED TO HER HEART AND PENETRATED
         
         HER SOUL.IT SPREAD THROUGH HER SOUL AND SAT THERE LIKE A ROCK.IT DRAGGED
         
         HER HEAD DOWN AND HER BREATH OUT.IT MADE HER CRY INSTEAD OF LAUGH,AND
         

         





         HAUNTED HER INSTEAD OF ENCOURAGED.
         
           SHE KICKED HARDER,AND FOUGHT TO THE SURFACE.BUT THE SURFACE WAS ICED OVER.
         PAINTED ON THE ICE WERE FACES OF PEOPLE SHE COULDN’T PLACE.THE ICE WAS