It was only now that she was under the water did Kato's warnings ring out in her ears. This was stupid, terribly stupid, and now she was going to pay for it. It was becoming more and more clear as she flailed that she wouldn't be returning to the surface on her own, and the effort was exhausting her. Between the burning sensation of water within her lungs and the large cut down her side from the flying pieces of wood, her whole body felt weak. Briefly, the young girl wondered if her Were form would be able to handle the water better. She tried to call the shift to her, finding her body too weak to shift. That was new. She'd never been unable to shift, not since she was a child, and that brought out a whole new level of panic within the girl. It only lasted a moment though before the exhaustion plagued her once again, this time causing her to stop kicking her legs. It wasn't getting her anywhere, and Edie was beginning to accept that this was going to be the way she died.

Her eyes were closed by the time Kato reached her, her body limp. The exhausted girl was unable to hold onto him or even assist him in getting them back to the surface. She was only vaguely aware of them coming above the surface. Her body instinctively tried to take a gasping breath, but the water in her lungs prevented any real benefit from that. She was no help as he lifted her onto the dock, the girl unable to sit up as she turned, attempting to force the water out of her lungs in weak coughs. She could feel Kato near her, his hands on her and the worried way he spoke, though the girl was yet to be able to answer him. The water burned as she coughed it back up, each weak cough answered by a gasping effort to get air.

She'd nearly drowned once before. The sensation wasn't quite new to her. She had been a child, then, unable to swim at a pool party. The same stubborn personality she had now had caused her to jump in following the teasing prompting of the fellow children in her pack. They'd whooped and hollered for her, completely unaware that she couldn't touch the bottom of the pool and equally couldn't keep herself above the water. It had only been seconds, then, once she'd gone under the water before one of the adults had yanked her out of the pool. They'd given her a firm lecture once the water had cleared her lungs. It had hardly been necessary. Since that moment, Edie had been sure she'd never set foot in a body of water again.

Of course, this was something she should have thought about before trying to infiltrate the Ark, given that it was a giant boat.

It took several minutes before Edie was able to breathe without the sensation of water in her lungs, and another minute before she was able to sit up. Though, sitting up may not have been the proper word for it. She reached out instinctively, her arms flying around the man beside her as she moved to hold herself to him. "Kato," She spoke out, her voice raspy from the efforts, but gentle all the same. There was none of her feisty demeanor in her voice. The events of the night had seemingly broken her for now. If she could have produced tears at the moment, she was sure she would have, but for now her body just seemed wrecked with shivers and gasping breaths. She was grateful for him, though grateful hardly seemed like the right word for it. In that moment, the girl was sure she loved the man who saved her.

"Thank you," Her voice sounded more normal now, though still remarkably quiet and shaken. There was no fight left in her, not now. Just the desire to cling to the one thing that felt safe in the moment. Later, she'd be shocked that it was Kato, of all things. Later, she'd brush it off as being merely grateful for the man who saved her. For now, she merely buried her nose into his chest, letting out tiny gasping breaths. "Kato I... Please. Please don't leave me."