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They didn\u2019t think I could hear them but I could. Every word.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s dead weight,\u201d one voice said. \u201cExhausted, oxygen deprived, dehy\u00addrated. He\u2019s got nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how we\u2019ll get him out before the rain comes,\u201d another man replied. \u201cGod help him if that tunnel floods\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cold cavern walls stung my cheeks. My lips were caked with dirt, dry and cracked. My empty stomach growled. I strained every muscle in my body, twisted left and right, ex\u00adhaled every cubic inch of air that I could. It made no difference.<\/p>\n

I was far beneath the surface of Maquo\u00adketa Caves State Park. The words of the rescue workers in another cham\u00adber of the cavern echoed loud and clear. If the tunnel floods\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHey, Logan!\u201d This voice was nearer. A female firefighter, one of the only rescuers small enough to squeeze in close to me. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be alone for a little bit while we switch shifts. You just take it easy. Okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

I lifted my head off the ground and craned my neck toward her. \u201cYeah, okay,\u201d I said weakly. The firefighter\u2019s flashlight disappeared around the bend and darkness poured into the shaft the way rainwater would, if the forecast held.<\/p>\n

These tunnels had been formed by the runoff from cen\u00adturies of storms. What did drowning <\/a>feel like? I imagined a steady stream trickling into the tunnel, rising around my face, filling my mouth and nose, flooding my lungs.<\/p>\n

This was not the day I had thought I\u2019d die. I\u2019d just finished my sopho\u00admore year at Wheaton College, and my friends and I had decided that a spelunking trip would be the perfect way to celebrate.<\/p>\n

I knew these caves; I\u2019d explored nearly all of them with my father, starting when I was 10 years old. I never dreamed I\u2019d be in any danger.<\/p>\n

Why hadn\u2019t I stayed at camp with the rest of the group? I could be set\u00adting up the tent, eating s\u2019mores<\/a>. But my friend Emma and I wanted to ex\u00adplore a real belly-crawler: Wye Cave.<\/p>\n

You enter through a sinkhole at the bottom of a valley and descend straight down to a steep boulder slope strewn with wood and leaves swept there by past storms. At the bottom is a tight pinch, about a foot high. You squeeze through, then the cave branches off into several smaller tunnels.<\/p>\n

Emma was the first to get stuck. Two other cavers heard our shouts and sent help. It took five hours for firefighters to get her free. As we followed the rescuers out, snaking through the shaft, I got stuck myself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m over six feet tall, and an out\u00adcropping I\u2019d tried to squeeze under trapped my chest against the tunnel wall. \u201cYou\u2019re okay, bud,\u201d one of them told me, examining the surrounding rock with his flashlight. \u201cWe\u2019ll lead her out and come back for you. Ten minutes, tops.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d believed it at the time. They\u2019ll get me out, ten minutes, tops. <\/em>When they returned, they tried everything\u2013harnesses and pulleys and ropes, chisels and drills\u2013careful to avoid triggering a collapse. But all the twisting and jostling had moved me less than a foot.<\/p>\n

In fact, I was wedged even tighter, my hips pegged against the limestone. First 10 minutes, then an hour, another hour. Now it had been 20, nearly a day in the dark underground.<\/p>\n

I wiggled my fingers, the only part of my body I could move freely. I couldn\u2019t feel anything below my knees\u2013just pins and needles. I closed my eyes and breathed deeply from the oxygen mask the rescue workers had set up for me.<\/p>\n

I thought of my parents, wait\u00ading for me at the command center on the surface. They were praying, I knew. Losing their son couldn\u2019t be God\u2019s plan. But what if it was?<\/p>\n

A memory flashed before my eyes. The morning before I left for the caves. I\u2019d spent it deep-cleaning my bedroom. Washing my laundry, scrubbing the hardwood floors, or\u00adganizing my drawers. I browsed the birthday and Christmas cards I\u2019d col\u00adlected over the years.<\/p>\n

I even found some of my old toys in the back of my closet and gave them to my three youngest brothers. I laughed at how excited they were about my yo-yos and Matchbox cars.<\/p>\n

Somewhere deep down, had I known that I wasn\u2019t coming back from this trip? Had that been God\u2019s way of letting me get my affairs in order?<\/p>\n

\u201cLord, let me free!\u201d I shouted out into the darkness. I gave it my all, what little I had left. Pain shot through my body. I arched my back, twisted my arms and flailed my senseless legs. I clawed at the smooth stone until my fingers felt raw, and screamed like a madman.<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t budge an inch. Too weak. My muscles withered.<\/p>\n

It had gotten colder. The lime\u00adstone walls wept with condensation. The rain would be coming soon\u2013no rescue team could stop it. This really is it. I\u2019m 20 years old. This is the way I go. <\/em><\/p>\n

I would never see my family again. Never finish college or buy my first car, fall in love and get married. I pressed my face against the damp stone and sobbed.<\/p>\n

God, I don\u2019t have anything left, <\/em>I prayed one last time. If there was any chance that I could free myself, it\u2019s gone. I need you now.<\/em><\/p>\n

I braced my hands against the rock wall and pushed. No strength at all. But cool air whooshed in around me. Like the rock itself had exhaled a breath. The pressure pinning my hips lifted.<\/p>\n

I shifted my hips. This time, my muscles didn\u2019t burn. My body didn\u2019t struggle against the stone. Instead, it slipped around the crags, like water through a channel. I could hardly feel my body moving, but every part went exactly where it needed to go, with precisely the right amount of force.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d imagined how my body needed to move dozens of times\u2013now every motion was masterfully orchestrated and carried out, with a sudden force\u00adful jolt. Was someone pushing me from behind?<\/p>\n

I flopped out onto the ledge and collapsed like a broken marionette. I was free.<\/p>\n

My body buzzed, the blood rushing back into my extremities. I looked behind me. No one there to have pushed me. I was quaking. Exhausted and sore. Someone had left a bottle of water and I guz\u00adzled it down. Ahead, beams of light danced around the dark cavern, the new shift of rescuers on their way.<\/p>\n

Strong arms gripped me and helped me stand. Jubilant voices echoed off the cavern walls. \u201cHe\u2019s okay! He\u2019s free! Call command. We\u2019re bringing him up now.\u201d<\/p>\n

I squinted against the bright after\u00adnoon sun. The rain had held off. The clouds were moving away. Dozens of rescue workers<\/a> surrounded the mouth of the cave, cheering. My par\u00adents ran up to me, tears in their eyes. EMTs lifted me onto a stretcher and into the back of an ambulance.<\/p>\n

It had taken all of their efforts to keep me safe, to keep me alive while I struggled down in the depths. But only a stronger push could set me free.<\/p>\n

Read<\/a> Logan’s mom’s account of this story!<\/em><\/p>\n

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