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After twenty seconds, Re on just enough power to hold position In the sudden quiet they heard the crash of waves, very close, to the right Then more on the left And behind They were surrounded

Suddenly dead on the bow, a towering rock wall veined with rivulets of ater appeared in the fog The waves, stacking atop one another in the shoals beneath them, lifted the raft and shoved them forward

“Sam!” Remi rasped quietly

“Hold on! Drop flat!”

The spire loomed before the bow Sah, then twisted the throttle to its stops and pushed it hard right The propeller bit down, shooting the away The rock swept past on the left and disappeared in the glooain They listened

“Closer on the right, I think,” Remi whispered

“Sounds closer on the left to me,” Sam replied

“Toss a coin?”

“No chance Your ears are better than mine,” he said, and steered left

“Stop,” Remi called ten seconds later “Do you feel that?”

“Yeah,” he replied, looking around

The raft wasspeed They felt their stomachs rise into their throats as the raft was lifted on another crest Ten feet to the right they caught a gli

“Paddles,” Sarabbed his from the floor of the raft In the bow, Remi did the same “Sharp eyes” Sam muttered

“Behind you!” Remi called

Sa up in his hands like a spear