When Griar came back to his senses, he had already washed ashore, laying on his back upon a beach of sand, completely soaked and shivering in the cold at every stray gust that passed over him, he jerked up and looked around, finding nothing and no one.
He could see the castle far away into the distance, obscured by fog.
'I swam that far?' without any mana augmentation, he had a hard time believing that he had actually managed such a feat.
As he thought of this, memories of him swimming whilst surrounded by nothing but darkness resurfaced, even just remembering that filled him with fright, when he dove into the water, he had not imagined that this would occur, he had acted in the heat of the action, brashly, and it truly could have easily costed him his life.
