The rush of water as he falls into the lake, little hands desperately reaching up, legs kicking as he tries to swim up desperately. But his pitiful swimming is no match for the seaweed, which grasps his legs tightly, refusing to let him go. And his last desperate thoughts are of regret and refusal to die.

And he drowns.

And then he drowns again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

He then wakes on muddied ground, the face of his uncle hovering over him.

"W porządku, Czesio?"

And Czesio has no idea how to answer because he is decisively not alright because the seaweed pulled him and the water filled his lungs and he remembers dying over and over again - drowning over and over again.

And his mind just can't take all of this in and so he starts crying. His uncle hovers, offering comfort and saying 'you are fine now'. But Czesio has never felt less fine than in that exact moment, so he just simply continues to cry.

This is the first death in the long line of deaths that Skull survives.

He can never stop drowning.

A/N Czesio (Che-shio) is a shortening of a Polish name Czesław (Che-ss-wa-v). I used this name because the Polish for Skull is Czaszka (Cha-sh-k-ah). I imagine that once he becomes interested in death (because of the whole dying thing) the kids in his class would call him Czaszka, as a nickname. As such, once he became a stuntman he just translates the nickname from Polish 'Czaszka' to English 'Skull', just to make it easier to say and to attract a larger audience.

Translations:
W porządku, Czesio? = Alright, Czesio?

His uncle is really worried, like screaming on the inside, but he's trying not to show it, hence the casual, strained 'Alright?'.