Hero of Dreams
“When he had hacked the thing loose from her he sliced at her fastenings and hauled her to her feet, propping her against one of the raft’s upright poles. Then he picked up the severed piece of vine, shuddering at its twisting and twining in his hand. Its underside was lined with tiny green suckers which opened and closed and pulsed in hideous hybrid death-throes.Eldin snatched the thing from him and gave a cry of loathing as he tossed it away from the raft into the morass … and a second cry as ...the scummy surface instantly erupted in a green writhing of hungry life. The whole swamp was a seething den of carnivorous creepers and tentacled plants.“What in the name of-?” Eldin choked. “What lunatic of a mind nightmared this lot?”Hero wasted no words. He snapped long branches from a dried-up tree standing close to the raft and handed one to his burly companion. “Get poling,” he snarled. “Head for the open water there.”Aminza, still disoriented, hung on grimly to the now wobbly uprights as Hero and Eldin used their branches to propel the raft through the morass.MoreLess
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