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Gaslight
Date: 10/10/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: lucywild, Rating: 5, Source: LushStories
surface and burst out above the waves a moment later, gasping for air. “Evelyn!” I cried, spitting out saltwater as I began to swim in circles. She appeared beside me a moment later and the two of us swam for the harbour wall, glancing back to see if David might appear. His head broke the surface a moment later but he’d lost the fusegun. He screamed with rage at the sight of the two of us and began to swim after us just as the steamcrate pilot floated up beside him. “You broke my bloody crate!” the pilot shouted, diving on David and pulling him back under. “Get off me!” David cried, trying to fight him off. “You’ll drown us both.” I looked forwards in time to spot the ladder set into the harbour wall. I reached it a second later and looked back to see a pleasure steamship coming in to land on the water. The pilot saw it first, swimming forwards away from the lowering jet furnaces. David wasn’t looking up, he was looking at something floating near him. I squinted and then I saw it, a glowing object in the dark, the fusegun. He flung his arms forwards and grabbed it, yelling in triumph as he lifted it from the water and pointed it towards us. “Any last words,” he screamed. “Look up,” I shouted back and he glanced upwards just in time to see the furnace of the steamship swallow him up, the hull of the ship sinking into the water of the harbour as his screams faded away into nothing. Shivering, I stood upright with Evelyn beside me. The pilot climbed up the ladder and stormed ...