Pre-AP English I: "Most Dangerous Game" Literary Writing Assignment

Bearing in mind the TEA's rubric for Literary Writing, write a short story detailing what happens to Rainsford that begins after this passage where he escapes from Zaroff by jumping into the sea:

Rainsford had hardly tumbled to the ground when the pack took up the cry again.

"Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed along. A blue gap showed between the trees dead ahead. Ever nearer drew the hounds. Rainsford forced himself on toward that gap. He reached it. It was the shore of the sea. Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea. . . .

When the general and his pack reached the place by the sea, the Cossack stopped. For some minutes he stood regarding the blue-green expanse of water. He shrugged his shoulders. Then be sat down, took a drink of brandy from a silver flask, lit a cigarette, and hummed a bit from Madame Butterfly.

and concludes with him coming within sight of the chateau; the story should end with the line: At last, Rainsford could see the chateau, and -- even better -- he had a plan.

Please take into account that Zaroff thinks Rainsford died in the fall and that Rainsford says at the end that he swam most of the way to the chateau.

Limit your story to 26 lines.