Chapter eighteenSwirled away with eyes and nostrils and mouths filled with water we shot helter-skelter downstream to plunge into the green gloom of a tunnel. Wa-Te had his tail hand wrapped about my waist and I gripped him so that we clung together in the millrace. Bright light smote down and we sluiced out into water that gradually lost its speed. Around us stretched a lake under an unseen roof, with exotic plants growing and birds flying everywhere.
Those birds flying and chirruping away up there made me think.
Usually it is not healthy to linger in unknown waters on Kregen. There are jaws that bite. So we swam for a little pinkish beach where already some of the survivors were crawling out onto the sand. We joined them.
The cadade was nowhere to be seen. That would probably have bee
