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| Bending to kneel, Sasha hugged Lightning to her. "I'll send one of the men back for you as soon as I reach the other side," she promised. She patted Lightning and kissed her on the tip of the nose. |

| Sasha rose to her full height and looked commandingly down at the pup. "Stay, Lightning," she said firmly. "Do you hear? Stay!" |

| Lightning looked trustingly up at her, wagging her tail. Sasha turned and swallowed hard as she edged toward the water. |

| Then, fiercely fearing her decision to do this, she dove in, headfirst. |

| The moment she hit the water and was sucked deep into what seemed a dark, never-ending void, she knew that she had made a mistake. |

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