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One of the horses whinnied and tore past her Itshape swooped down and knocked it off its feet Jaws tore into the horse’s neck with a ripping sound

Sara’sher by the wrist The river! he yelled We have to get to the river! With a hard yank, he hauled her into the cover of the trees; they began to run Shapes bounded above them, limb to limb Branches whipped her face and arms Where was the river, their salvation? Sara could hear it but could not locate it in the dark

"Ju They had leapt from a cliff As she hit the surface, a new, deeper darkness, the darkness of water, enveloped her It see, but at last her feet touched the bottom She pushed off and shot to the surface

"Hollis!" She twisted in the water, blindly searching "Hollis, where are you?"

"Over here Keep your voice down"

She was spinning frantically, trying to locate the source of the voice "I can’t find you"

"Stay where you are"

Hollis appeared, treading water beside her "Are you hurt?"

Was she? She took stock of her body She didn’t think she was

"What’s happening? Where did they come from?"

"I don’t know"

"Don’t leave ht to calm herself In, out, in, out

"It looks like there are pockets at the base of the cliff," Hollis said "We’re going to swi; her teeth had begun to chatter

"Stay close"

With a s The cliff took forht, perhaps twenty feet, and irregularly shaped, with blocky protrusions of pale limestone cantilevered over the pool The water becauided her beneath an outcrop A flat-topped boulder rose above the surface of the water Hollis helped her up