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SOLOING

I messed up. I messed up bad. I was alone in the Himalayas, stuck in a pocket eddy, which feeds into a siphon. No one could help me. No one but myself.

I managed to stabilize myself, jam my paddle, and throw my Watershed onshore. If I jumped out of my boat and made it onto the rocks, there was a chance that I wouldn’t get sucked into the human-sized toilet flushing right next to me. But that was the ideal scenario, not the reality. Next thing I knew, I was getting sucked underwater, straight into the siphon. As I went down, I pushed my boat as far

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