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On an abstracted sounding note he added, "or dig us in deeper"

I sed nervously as I watched him reach up and wrap the other end of the wire fro The piece of wire that he had spliced between the two contact points began to glow and the scroll fell froht up the scroll that had rolled itself up in a reflexive action upon having been released froo…… oh darn! It's burning the wire in half! It's got toofor the tunnel corridor where I stood

He dove into the tunnel to land at my feet, while I watched blue sparks snap out in abandon in the other rooht pulsed throughout the cavern and there was the i into stone in the roohly

In a daze I said, "No, I don't think so You?"

"Me neither We skated by that one! We should……"

The sound of onrushing water overrode his voice and completed the circuit of panic driven paranoia that my consciousness had flown apart into I turned to run for the scroll room and the e had co at us from the darkness of the tunnel at our backs

Before I could make any headway I was seized fast to Colt's side as he pressed up against the side wall of the tunnel

"No! We have to go out against the water! It's the only e can make it!"

The man was crazy! Certifiable insanity was the essence of the thing that he proposed to do!

There was no ht as the water hit us and filled the tunnel up We were pressed back against the side of the tunnel by the onrushing water and it was a asped for breath as the reed within the tunnel There was light enough given off by the scroll to see by, but I wasn't prepared for the sudden jerk tofloater that had slacked off sole in an atteainst the floater