Noble was out of breath, but — he didn't feel water anymore, except where it had soaked into his clothes. He'd barely had time to process that before Holden's weird sister was pushing away from him and — slapping him, for some reason, and Noble squinted at her in confusion. He'd saved her, hadn't he, at least to some extent?

He pushed himself up on his elbows. "Alright," he said, sounding somewhere between confused and exasperated.

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