Valery grabbed the emergency motor.
“Hold on!”
The tiny raft disappeared into the darkness.
For hours, the ocean tried to kill us.
Waves swallowed us.
Rain blinded us.
The motor died twice.
At one point, I thought I was going to disappear beneath the water.
But just before sunrise, the storm finally weakened.
A wave threw our raft onto a beach.
We crawled onto the sand.
Neither of us could stand.
I looked at Valery.
“Are we alive?”
She laughed weakly.
“Unfortunately for them.”
Then we both collapsed.
