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It was a happy thought That did make it a little easier to stay comfortably aloft

One of the other problems was that, unlike water, air was hard toforward or backas i around, for exa on your back, well, that was not an easy thing to do, either

As he was discovering

He was, in effect, lying on his side at the round You couldn’t really push against air

But that was okay He’d figure it out

One thing he was considering was picking so down But ht out there in the fields And he would be able to float just above the ground, out of range of the zekes, but able to reach down and snag a nice, juicy cantaloupe

Only problein with And then, how to get back If there was no breeze, heabove a deadly zeke field forever

That was not a happy thought Not at all To make his power really useful he would have to learn how to move once he was in the air

Right noas having a hard enough tiround below

So thing going on in the plaza Sorass Sa to be happy about that And now there werearound like they were having a party

Duck smelled the meat before he saw it

He had to squint hard in the failing light There it was, across the hood of the car A deer

Now so a fire in the dry bed of the fountain The sh he supposed it could get to be irritating eventually

He was drifting on the slight breeze, so he wasn’t too worried What he as ravenous The s out

He couldn’t see who the kids were, just the tops of their heads, which didn’t tell you much But then he saw that one boy was tied by a rope to the bumper of the car