“I had thought myself entirely safe in the cleft, which hid me from every landward vantage point, but I had forgotten the tide. The straits, agitated by a strengthening wind, were rising fast, and the icy flooding water would very soon force me out of my hiding place and into the waiting sights of Lisl and her gunmen. I knew they would be watching for me. They must have realized I was hidden somewhere in the bleak tangle of rocks on the foreshore, and that if I did not break cover soon I wou...ld drown or else die of hypothermia in the rising waters. The wind suddenly seemed bitterly cold. It was blowing ever more strongly, gusting close to gale force as it flecked the water behind me white. The deterioration of the weather gave me hope that David would have decided to take Stormchild out through the fjord’s gut into the wide, safe ocean, and would already be beating his way offshore and waiting for my radio signal. The thought of the radio made me remember how something had broken during my panicked and bruising descent of the old lime chute.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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