? ? ? ? "She is still all-powerful here, however," I replied. "So it behooves us to leave at the first moment that appears at all propitious."
? ? ? ? "I hope that you may find a propitious moment," he said, with a laugh, "for it is certain that in all my life I have never seen one in which a prisoner of the First Born might escape."
? ? ? ? "To-night will do as well as any," I replied.
? ? ? ? "It will soon be night," said Xodar. "How may I aid in the adventure?"
? ? ? ? "Can you swim?" I asked him.
? ? ? ? "No slimy silian that haunts the depths of Korus is more at home in water than is Xodar," he replied.
? ? ? ? "Good. The red one in all probability cannot swim," I said, "since there is scarce enough water in all their domains to float the tiniest craft. One of us therefore will have to support him through the sea to the craft we select. I had hoped that we might make the entire distance below the surface, but I fear that the red youth could not thus perform the trip. Even the bravest of the brave among them are terrorized at the mere thought of deep water, for it has been ages since their forebears saw a lake, a river or a sea.
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