Chapter 26
Of course the swamp was a nasty place. If I hadn’t been wearing a stat suit, feeling it expelling the wet stuff all around us only slightly slower than it kept seeping in, I don’t think I’d ever have been dry again! As it was, wading through that greenish slop – and what started out pretty clear around the start became really gooey really fast less than an hour’s trek from our encounter with the Vror – I felt gross all over, and for once I really wished that the stat suit didn’t breathe so much: it let me feel everything in that muck…and some of it was wriggling.
The new normalcy kicked in pretty fast, too. I mean the Arena’s normalcy, of course, and that meant violence. Right when I was standing in this gunk right up to my chest, and even Ferdinand was waist high in
