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And yet, if a boat could be landed, a person could climb up the back of that rock slide to the top of the cliff

The engine caught and h the hull

Tyrell cursed furiously and said, "I knew it, I knew it!"

The boat kept ine died The boat lost way

It drifted and the opening fell sloay

Only twenty feet So close

Then thirty feet

Forty

Caine turned cold eyes on his little crew He stretched out his hand and Penny rose fro her toward shore She flew, tuh the air and landed with a splash just feet from the nearest of the tumbled boulders

No ti, who disappeared halfway through his flight but created a splash so close to the rocks Diana wondered if he had s

What was Caine’s range for throwing a fifty-or seventy-five-or one-hundred-pound person with any accuracy? Diana wondered That most be close to his limit

Diana’s eyes met Caine’s

"Protect your head," he warned

Diana locked her fingers together behind her neck and squeezed her ariant, invisible hand squeeze her tight and then she was hurtling through the air

She didn’t cry out Not even as the rocks rushed toward her She would hit theravity had its way and her straight line became a down-turned arc

The rocks, the foae Deep and cold, the water filled her mouth with salt

There was a hard sharp pain as her shoulder hit rock She kicked her legs and her knees scraped against an alhed her dorapped tight around her, seized her arled, how ht, sunlit surface, which was a hundred ht by the soft swell, and tossed like a doll against a lichen-slicked boulder She scrabbled with both hands as she choked Fingernails on rock Feet plowing cru pebbles beneath her

Suddenly she was up and out of the water fro for air

She waited there for aher breath Then, she pushed on, oblivious to scrapes and rips, to a drier spot She stopped there, all energy spent

Caine had already reached shore He slumped, exhausted, wet, but at the sa his name