Chapter 22
They stopped at the edge of an underground river.
“This wasn’t here before,” Basin said. He set hands on his hips. He studied the fast flowing water.
“What wasn’t?” Quill asked.
“The river. It wasn’t here,” Basin said.
“How do we cross it?” Coil asked.
Basin stared at Coil. “Did you hear me just say, twice, that this river wasn’t here the last time I came through? So why are you asking me how to cross it? I don’t know how to get across.”
“You don’t know how to get across?” Coil said. He turned around, and clapped his hands at his sides. “He doesn’t know how to get across.”
Mykal squatted by the bank, and looked at the other side. “It’s too far to jump.”
“You could do that thing, like you did with the moat. Freeze a path for us to cross,” Eadric said.
“He can’t,” Anna s
