As all my senses get snatched away from me, I feel my breath hitch in my throat.

The vague sensation of Leo's arms tightly wrapped around me remained, but it felt far off, like a distant dream.

I feel my heartbeat begin to spike as I swiftly lose my sense of orientation.

Logically, I knew we'd only gone in a straight line down. But all my organs scrambled to understand what direction I was facing.

I felt like I was floating up, twisting around, and sinking, all at once.

It was a heady feeling that made me feel a sharp pounding in my head once...twice...three times.

My grip around Leo's shoulders tightened, till my own arms were wrapped around his neck and my face was buried between his shoulder and neck.

I fought to stop my body from shaking as a trauma response to the last time I descended into the ocean, because I'd suddenly realized I hadn't dealt with the situation that happened to me.

But in my defence, I forgot.

I feel the vague sense of pressure around my hips lose, and a spike of panic violently licks through me before the faint feeling slowly creeps up to the middle of my waist.

I calm down.

But only slightly.

I feel my hair being brushed aside. Or more accurately, I became aware that I was being touched by the feeling of whisps of my hair being moved to the side.

This would be oddly erotically sensual if the overall context of the situation was thrown out the window.

I wonder how funny the boys would think this was if I told them-

My thoughts get sharply cut in half when I feel something brush against the tip of my ear.

"Don't panic. I've got you" Leo's voice breaks through the murky darkness and reaches out to me. "Try to control your breathing. Your heartbeat is so loud it's shaking the both of us."

The amused humour in his tone wasn't lost on me, and I appreciated it immensely. I desperately needed some levity to distract me from spiralling.

But then I registered the fact that my loud ass heartbeat could be heard through this silent ocean and embarrassment washes over me.

"Y-you can hear it!?" I ask.

I heard what seems to be a soft chuckle before Leo leans in close to whisper into my ear again.

"It's awfully quiet down here, and sound travels very far, very quickly," Leo says with a light laugh. "I can also tell your head hurts too."

I feel our bodies squish together as he got close.

Too close.

Our legs tangle as I vaguely try to imitate swimming, because I knew I was technically literally underwater. While Leo's legs smoothly kicks out in confident strokes, full-on imitating a swimming motion.

But it was slightly different.

A bit off.

It almost felt like he was simulating a walking motion while underwater.

But given I literally couldn't even see him, I could only guess to what his movements were.

"So please...Calm down and just, breathe." Leo's strong reassuring tone reaches deep down into me, like a one-way path through my very throat, and pulls out my sense of trust and faith in him.

I close my eye, even though it made literally no difference, and focused on my breathing.

In....Out...

My nerves calmed and my heartbeat steadied.

Though I'd be lying if I said Leo's reassuring hold on me wasn't a major contributing factor.

In....Out...

He was surprisingly so warm, and there, and present.

All factors that seemed to be enough for me in this moment.

Then Dion joined us and cranked everything up to 11.

"Is she okay?" Dion asks.

"Yeah, she's fine." Leo responds. "I just got her heart rate down- why is your heart spiking back up again Mel?" He sharply asks me.

You see, when Dion appeared, he did so behind me.

Meaning, I was currently squished between the two of them. With Dion hands coming up to hold me, and technically Leo, as well.

My hormones weren't doing so well.

"A-a-ahm..." I struggled to find the words. My body beginning to shake again, but for COMPLETELY different reasons.

"Are you okay?" Dion worriedly asks, his body pressing in close, pushing me further into Leo and squeezing me more tightly between them.

Oh God, I'm going to pass out.

"T-t-too..." my voice dies out.

"To what?" Leo asks, his breath (I think?) tickling my ears and neck.

If I wasn't a strong woman, I would've creamed right then and there.

But it'll take a lot more than that to satisfy me.

"T-too close!" I choke out.

They both instantly lean away from me, but only their upper halves.

I grit my teeth and continue to clarify my point.

"You're both way too close to me, and my body is not handling that fact well." I pause for emphasis. "Sexually."

At that the two of them broke away from me instantly, both moving so far away that Dion completely vanishes into the darkness away from me, and Leo holds me back at arm's length. The only thing of his connected to me was his hands on my shoulders.

You'd think I was made of lethal poison by the way they quickly backed off.

But I wasn't going to take their actions too seriously. After all, I was the one that called attention to the situation.

And they probably got the picture as my heart rate finally returned to normal after some seconds.

"S-so...rry..." I vaguely hear what seems to be the distant call of who I assume was Leo. Or maybe Dion.

A frustrated growl lives and dies in my throat.

"I under you both have to be close to communicate with me, and you have to maintain constant contact or my sense of self will vanish into the void and I'll spiral. But can you just...ease me into it? Take turns talking to me and probably lean back when you're down?"

I don't see anything. Of course.

But I was sure movement was occurring outside my line of sight. My field/sense of senses???

Wait-

It was then that it occurred to me. Could Leo and Dion see through the darkness!?

"Okay. We understand. We'll take turns talking to you and try not to get too close," I hear Leo's voice as he seems to lean in, speak directly into my ear canal, and then lean away.

His hands on my shoulders trace down both my arms and interlock with my hands.

I almost cry at the sensation.

"We apologize for discomforting you," Dion leans in and says next, then leaning back and disappearing into the ethos.

I didn't like how left out he must feel, so I let go of one of Leo's hands and fan it out into the void to reach out for Dion.

I feel a strong well sculpted chest.

And accidentally squeeze a titty.

My heart slams loudly into my ribs once.

A burst of a snicker rings out behind me.

"Shut up!" I growl, strongly squeezing Leo's hand in retaliation and hearing him yelp in pain as a response.

I feel more than hear Dion's rumbly laughter grow and bubble through his chest as I then sense one of his hands rise up next to capture my outstretched one.

I then register what seems to be a soft kiss get placed on my hand.

But the sensation was so soft and bloody vague, it could be anything from a kiss to fart, and I wouldn't know the difference.

Dion tugs my hand next, and Leo releases my other one as I glide through the water towards him.

"It's time for that part where we show you how relatively safe and amazing Titan is," Dion says next.

I effortlessly glide through the water as my body comes to a stop by his. His hand still holds one of mine while the other steadies me with a firm grip on my hip.

But our pose doesn't remain for long as Dion makes a grand motion and flings me out wide, like a figure skater tossing their dancing partner out onto the ice. Dion still kept a firm grip on my hand though, like the ice skater would to continually maintain contact with their partner as they soared across the ice.

I felt my whole body fan out.

What was once a feelingless black void suddenly felt like an endless ice- or roller-skating -rink.

Like an explosion of colour bursting out, but only through my sense of touch and feel. A whole new world, literally opening up before me through an entirely new sensual medium.

It was literally like my body could feel colours!!

My feet glided across the water. Faintly feeling the coily tendrils of the ocean as I slide across.

My eyes go wide and my heart beats loudly once more.

Not from shame or horniness.

But from the sudden realization of the possibilities I'd been blind to and miss.

As I'm spread out, suddenly more in tune with the water current around me.

I feel something swim up to me quickly.

"Please allow us to show you how amazing our world is," I hear Leo whisper into my ear next.

I smile mischievously.

"Gladly," I eagerly reply. Allowing myself to be swept up into the magic and frenzy.