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The feeling was akin to a thin veil of pressure against the inside of his skull. Hollow and dazed, as if he’d just sneezed but hadn’t re-oriented to reality. Everything was about this feeling, as if his mind tried to grasp what was happening but the tendrils of his reasoning just continued to circle the sensation of the event and not to any other concern of what was currently happening to him. His legs continued to walk forwards, dry sand switching to wet progressing to the chill of a small swell of water that swept over his foot. His pace never faltered as he strode out into the surf. Soon the water was drawing him in as each step was pulled along with retreating waves and sand and yet he remained oblivious, stuck to trying to identify what his mind was going through. The water met his navel the same time a strong set of hands gripped him under the arms and hauled him backwards.

The world spun sharply to color, sound, and motion. A gasp ripped through him to the pain of salted air and freezing waters as his body convulsed. Shock lit all his warning bells as adrenaline flooded his veins in heart thundering jolts. There was shouting, he realized now as he was hauled back out of the water. Trying to decipher the words was cut short at the bone clacking deep growl that made itself known somewhere in front of him. “Fuck that!” The man behind him cursed as he picked up haste in their retreat and Denki wholeheartedly agreed as he got his feet to floundering to escape whatever was in the water.