James Rodriguez
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I have to go into the water.
There is no water.
I said firmly, reaching for her arm again.
She twisted away with unexpected agility.
You don't see it, but I do.
The lake.
It's right there.
She pointed to empty air.
Maggie's waiting for me before I could stop her.
Sarah bolted across the clearing toward a tangle of vines and roots at its edge.
I pursued immediately, but she had a seven-yard head start.
She reached the vegetation boundary and disappeared as if swallowed by the jungle itself.
One moment visible, the next gone completely.
I reached the spot four seconds later where Sarah had passed.
I found only a sheer drop.
A natural sinkhole, approximately of deep, with jagged rock formations at its bottom.
The vegetation had concealed the edge completely.
Sarah lay motionless at the bottom, body twisted at unnatural angles across the rocks.
Even from this height, I could see the extensive trauma.
No one survived a fall like that onto those surfaces.