Raine didn't even process the surreality of the surroundings at first, simply gasped as soon as something like fresh air hit her face. She coughed, body heaving in the effort to expel the water from her lungs, and it hurt but at least she could breathe. At Jacob's urging she tried a proper deep breath, and it was uneven and shuddering but it was a breath. Thereafter it was a little easier.

With the water no longer pressing in, Raine could think a little, and her breaths grew more even. A tree, in the depths of the ocean? Surely not natural, and with that realization came the belated recollection that this was the Dreaming. Jacob's doing, then. A great tree, to save them both, and Raine could nearly have laughed, if not for the continued conscious effort necessary to breathe evenly.

Still water, beyond those boundaries, waiting to swamp them, and her hands were still shaking, but she was alive. And this surely wasn't her doing, there had been no intent, which left... their enemy. Nearly as she thought that Raine caught movement in the water beyond, scarcely more than shadows but not something she was going to discount at this point. Perhaps two? One close, one distant. She tugged at Jacob's sleeve and pointed.