It's as unpleasant an awakening as he's ever had, plunging into freezing, foul-tasting water that closes over his head immediately. Sam's eyes fly open to murky darkness, and panic stabs through him as he flails helplessly. Drownded. He's drownded, or near enough - will be soon, any road, and he can't even remember how this had happened, how things had gone so terribly wrong -
He kicks uselessly, waves his arms without much hope, and miraculously his feet hit the bottom and his arms break the surface, though the air's so damp it's hard to tell much difference between water and sky, and the mud squelches under his feet, threatening to suck him down deeper and swallow him up for good. He's reminded, unpleasantly, of the trees in the Old Forest and how they'd all been nearly buried without so much as noticing, and he launches himself up with a sudden, terrified effort, gasping for breath as his head breaks the surface.
He's treated to half a second of a terrifying sight: darkness and gloominess and terrifying shapes all around, an eerie green light illuminating it all, and he barely has time to shout "Help!" before he loses his footing and plunges under the water once more.
Samwise Gamgee | OTA
He kicks uselessly, waves his arms without much hope, and miraculously his feet hit the bottom and his arms break the surface, though the air's so damp it's hard to tell much difference between water and sky, and the mud squelches under his feet, threatening to suck him down deeper and swallow him up for good. He's reminded, unpleasantly, of the trees in the Old Forest and how they'd all been nearly buried without so much as noticing, and he launches himself up with a sudden, terrified effort, gasping for breath as his head breaks the surface.
He's treated to half a second of a terrifying sight: darkness and gloominess and terrifying shapes all around, an eerie green light illuminating it all, and he barely has time to shout "Help!" before he loses his footing and plunges under the water once more.