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"Lights, camera, action!"

The tank started to fill with water as Alicia Alcott struggled with the ropes binding her wrists together.
"Let me out you evil freak!" she yelled as the water rose up past her knees. Bill, the man playing her captor laughed maniacally.

Her lines concluded, the 12 year old actress waited for the special effects team to trigger the mechanism that would blow the panels out. From inside the tank, she saw a commotion arise up at the propmasters booth.

The mechanism had jammed. Alicia was stuck inside the tank, and the water kept flowing in. It was now up to her belly, the water sloshing around her waist. Her puffer jacket began to soak up the water and grow heavy, pulling her down.

Alicia began to kick the panels futilely. She was panicking, the prospect of drowning for real suddenly on her mind.

"Help, get me out, get me out!" the girl screamed. The water was up to her neck now.

The film crew scrambled desperately to fix the tank release valve. The water rose, and finally submerged the young girl completely. She floated, her hairbuns coming undone and casting her long blonde bangs in twirling wreathes around her skinny body. Her cheeks bulged as she held her breath, her blue eyes wide in terror. The film crew began to bash the panes of glass with whatever tools they could get their hands on, their attempt to fix the valve release abandoned in desperation.

Finally, Alicia's burning lungs could no longer sustain themselves. She opened her mouth, and sucked in water. Her coltish legs kicked frantically, bubbles erupting from her mouth and nose as water rushed into her thin, slender form. She arched her back in one final jerky motion, then went still. She slowly drifted down to the floor of the tank, eyes half closed, lips parted. It would have been her 13th birthday that weekend.


Name: Elizabeth Doakes
Age: 11
Description: Appearance in picture. A young maid in the household of one of the great noble families
Type of Death: Gallows hanging.
Scenario: A young housemaid sentenced to hang for petty thievery