[How is she supposed to differentiate between can't and won't with this rudimentary level of communication? Her 'yeah, well' shrug fades into steeling herself to go back in the water, even for as long as it takes to get to shore. Even with her ridiculously high pain tolerance, it's like swimming through iron. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to move.]
[And yet somehow she manages to shove herself off of the rock and back into the water.]
[It burns and freezes and it's a long moment or two before she manages to thrash her way to the surface again to get her bearings and head, painfully, to shore, her face a grimace.]
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[And yet somehow she manages to shove herself off of the rock and back into the water.]
[It burns and freezes and it's a long moment or two before she manages to thrash her way to the surface again to get her bearings and head, painfully, to shore, her face a grimace.]