" You don't have to crawl, I'll take you," said Tom. There was a stack ofdeck chairs like the two he had set out for him and Phyllis. The bottomchair ...had little plastic wheels on it so the whole stack could be movedaround. He yanked the other chairs off of it and rolled it up next to mylounger."Thanks," I said, and slid over onto the seat. This chair wasn't designedto be used as a mermaid wheelchair, and I had to hold my tail up in frontof me as he wheeled me toward the superstructure."I assume. Cricket appeared as a hologram on Solara’s wrist, “Stop! Dig a hole and bury the construx, so I have a base to start from. The deeper, the better! I’m going to build a tunnel to Gyges and Mark, who both appear to be lying horizontally on the floor.”The girls started digging a hole, it was tough going and they could only go down a few centimetres before they hit solid rock, so Solara put the construx in the hole and within a few seconds, the rocks started turning black and a tube about 2 metres. It was great until I blew my ankle out on the landing. It was a nasty break, but the doc put it back together."She asked, "Does it hurt?" with a look of true concern."It hurt for the first two weeks, not much now. I just use ibuprofen when it does. I've got another month or so in the cast. Mostly it just itches." The cast stretched my leg out straight running from top of my thigh to toe tip. My knee is locked straight and the toes point like a ballerina. It's so long I'm stuck riding sideways. “No Klarven either,” Abi agreed. “Though they mostly ravaged the cities and the main bases.”“Ilzik, could your people maintain a watch for us?” I requested.“On it,” he replied, before cloaking and moving his team to where they could spot anyone approaching.“Nell, could your people scout out the outer buildings in case we’ve missed something?”“Of course, friend John.”“OK, Abi, do your thing,” I nodded when I received mental confirmation that all was in place.“Nothing,” Abi finally replied with a.