Of course, he had wanted to feed his sister the fish, not just the Grass. However, it was rather difficult to feed an unconscious person hard, fried meat, which had to be chewed as carefully as old and stale beef. So, he’d had to squeeze juice from the Grass into her mouth.
Hadjar’s thoughts were interrupted by a sudden acceleration in the stream’s flow. The stream became a spiral. This could mean only one of two things: there was either a cave or an underground pocket of air ahead of them that was causing the odd change. They’d been swimming for a rather long time. Elaine would most likely have to use one of the sacks soon. The fish had grown larger, so it was unlikely that the water had carried them to safety.
After checking that the rope he’d used to tether Elaine to himself was still
