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“You’re safe here,” he said

“That doesn’t mean I want to stay This place is the bizarro version of Gilligan’s Island and I’er”

“Trust me,” Kurt said, “you’rearound I need you out of harm’s hile I try to reach Aqua-Terra”

Now she paused as if trying to process what he’d said “You’re going back? Didn’t we alet away from there?”

“And we landed here,” Kurt said “Things are looking up”

“Don’t you think going back to the floating island controlled by terrorists will reverse that trend?”

“Not if I go with rifles and the element of surprise”

She studied hihts “Your friends on the island?”

He nodded

“Not only that,” Kurt said, “Jinn is there And he’s up to so or ”

“Like what?”

“This whole thing started with an investigation of the water temps The weather pattern over India has beco rains, and this year’s looking to be the driest yet Your brother was studying the current and teht lie there, in a previously undiscovered El Niño/La Niña effect”

She nodded “And he found those little h the ocean”

“Exactly,” Kurt said “And when they started reflecting the sunlight, I could feel heat cos have to be connected I’ around with the te horrible results down the road”

By now they’d arrived at the eastern side of the island on a low bluff no h Ahead of the approach through the reef than the one Kurt had taken from the north