Birds circled overhead. I was scared. More scared than I ever had been. I could still see my father's ship sinking in the distance; I don't know how or why it happened. This was supposed to be a nice family cruise, our father had convinced me to go with him but in the middle of the afternoon, something hit the ship, we don't know what it was. It was going down so fast, we didn't have any lifeboats. My father threw a raft in the water and told me to jump after it. He told me to wait, that he would come and swim after me. So I jumped.

But it has been hours now, the ship was slowly disappearing under the horizon of the endless sea. And there was no sign of him. Tears rolled down my reddened eyes, he was gone. And soon, the same destiny will have befallen me.

I closed my eyes, praying. Not seeing the silver fins that circled closer to the raft.

'Dear lord, have mercy for my soul. Protect me from harm and evil, make help come my wa-'

The raft fell over.

And as the water turned red,

birds continued to circle overhead.