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“The Human Drill”

There was no chance he would ever be able to sleep But he did Through the worst night of his life, Duck Zhang drifted into and out of a weird night in between thatslowly crazy He drea hi the pizza just would

Then at last he woke up and saw…

Saw!

The light was dih

“Hey! I can see!” he cried

The first thing he could see was that the cave did not open onto the outside The mouth of the cave was underwater That was the source of the light, it filtered up through the blue-green water itself The open air couldn’t be too terribly far away, no more than a hundred feet et there

The second thing he saas that the cave was bigger than he’d ih that you could park five or six school buses and have space left over

The third thing he saere the bats

They hung fro yellow eyes There were thousands packed close together

They stared at him

That’s when it occurred to hiht and hid during the day

Plus, normally, bats weren’t blue

And suddenly they began dropping, opening their wings He was enveloped in a leathery tornado

He dove for the water Freezing cold He powered down and forward, aiht Much safer underwater, even with sharks or jellyfish or—