Guppy pulls hard on the rope, making the use of Atton's sprint momentum to pull him as far and as fast as he can.

"Keep pulling hard!" he yells at Will, then sprints in to pull Atton the last few metres out. The pain is almost unbearable, but he uses every ouce of strength to help pull Atton the rest of the way quickly, then collapses just outside.

He knows it wasn't a sensible thing to do, but if Will went in and collapsed, there would have been no hope of him pulling both of them out, whereas there might have been hope for Will to do it if he'd collapsed, and he didn't have time to explain that.

"At, talk to us..." he whimpers, crawling over to him and shaking him gently on the shoulder.