"What do you mean?" Sebastian asked, his eyes narrowing down at her as she tried to catch her breath and speak at the same time. He patted her back and willed her to relax for a moment before she spoke again, but the terror she must have experienced seemed intense enough that she didn't wait to catch her breath and raised her hand trying to describe what she was saying even as the words came tumbling out.
"Water, it took a form like a snake, I don't know how that ha-happened, but it wrapped around me and dragged me into the river. It even spoke to me...I...I couldn't break free from it no matter how hard I tried." Viola rasped, her throat still feeling raw from the experience and her body shaking, but she didn't care about any of that as much as she cared about making him understand what had just happened, because she had never experienced anything like it in her life.
