A plank missing here, a plank missing there…why am I here again? Ohhh right because I believed the pictures online.

It’s new, the lake that is, for me. I usually settle for my comfortable lake I’ve been to since I was a kid…but nope! I had to be adventurous and explore a new place.

Gosh this ladder’s rickety…better than jumping in for the first dip!

A single toe to touch the surface…surprisingly warm? Hm that’s strange, especially considering the leaves have begun to fall.

Neck down, I’m in the water. Perhaps I’ll emerge my head underwater.

A pulling, now, a pulling on my legs! Something, or somebody, is pulling me! Down I go, in the dark murky water, eyes blinded from the thing that intends to…kill me?

But not kill me…a girl. I see a girl. Why is she dressed in Victorian clothes and dragging me to the bottom? Why is there a girl?!

Wait…now she is leaving—heading to the surface! That was odd…is this a dream?

Anyways, maybe I just didn’t see her before…wait! How can I breathe?

I’m trapped…I’m actually trapped, I can’t surface! I’m stuck…and yet the Victorian girl is now ascending the old ladder.

Why am I trapped here? It seems as if my insides are trapped—my soul. Almost as if…I took the place of the Victorian girl…