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With eyes clenched shut, Ludwig braced himself for impact into the white below him, but he was shocked as he hit it and passed right through it into freezing cold sea water. Silver bubbles escaped from his mouth as he shot upward through the water. His lungs burned from lack of air, but it vanished as he burst out into the open air above the churning surf. Shaking the water from his head and eyes, he looking around himself in confusion. Dark storm clouds crowded the sky above, turning the water around him into a murky gray and black with white foam. A few seagulls squalled as they rode the wind that was starting to pick up and it nipped at...