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| 9 | 710 | Was I not, in some way, however negligible, of some View more quotes about value">value, an investment of sorts, as the dealer had reminded the free woman? What if they miscalculated? What if I could not hold my breath as long as they expected? I began to despair. |
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| 9 | 707 | The swirling water was cold. |
| 9 | 708 | I felt my hair lifted about, in the current. |
| 9 | 709 | Surely they would not wish to kill me. |
| 9 | 710 | Was I not, in some way, however negligible, of some value, an investment of sorts, as the dealer had reminded the free woman? What if they miscalculated? What if I could not hold my breath as long as they expected? I began to despair. |
| 9 | 711 | Strange memories, from the past, flashed about me, as though swirling in the water. |
| 9 | 712 | I must breathe! Then I felt the cage shift, jerk, and begin to be drawn toward the surface. |
| 9 | 713 | I must not breathe! I must not breathe! And then the cage broke the surface of the water and, sputtering, I expelled air, and sucked into my lungs the glory of an unpolluted world's air. |