ARRIVING AT THE SHORE, Carrie relaxed a little as she inhaled the sea air. It was wonderful to return to the ocean where she had had a wonderful swim and had been carried through the waves on the back of a sea creature. But she was surprised to see there was no ship nor any other water transport. Surely they weren’t going to travel on miliots?
“You’d think they’d have a boat ready,” said Dave.
She didn’t reply, wondering how the dandrobians travelled long distances across the ocean without complex technology. Sailboats?
An alien waded out a short distance into the water, his robes floating around him. When he was chest deep, he dipped underneath. Carrie expected to see him surface as he began swimming, but he didn’t reappear. The other dandrobians were unperturbed by this behaviour.
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