the light-stick dropped from my mouth , and as my lungs gave their final screeches for air , their final pleas , i could not stop to pick it up again , so i began to kick with the remnants of my strength , and to pull myself forward , my fingers clawing the water , pulling me forward until finally , above me , i saw darkness that could only be another room , and when i thrust myself up into that darkness , i found myself in a guards quarters , and not only that , but it was a guards quarters with a window .