To say he fully understood the nightmarish event that had just transpired was wrong, but Elias was mostly following his instincts, and luckily for him, at this time, those instincts had not led him wrong, but he had seen what should be the third object he needed to find, and he swam toward it.
His body was slow and heavy, as if the weight of the dead had been permanently added to his body, but Elias swam stroke by stroke, and it helped that he only had to direct himself over the glowing gem.
The gem pulsed with soft blue light, and as he drew closer, he could see that it was not a gem at all, or if it was, it was the strangest gem he had ever seen. To him, this was a tear, resembling a single drop of water, frozen in time.
Darkness was slowly closing around him, and Elias wondered if he had been underwater for hours. He could no longer deliberate on this issue, and he reached for the gem. The instant he touched it, the surrounding water erupted.
