Wennman wusste, auf was man achten musste. Ich brauchte einen Moment, umweiterzumachen. Ich sah auf die beiden Kleider und zog mit einem Seufzerdas T-...Shirt ?ber den Kopf.Beide atmeten h?rbar ein. "Oh Mann!" Da hast du v?llig Recht. Ich kann es selbst noch nicht fassen." Was ist das?" Max stand augenscheinlich auf dem Schlauch."Nach was sieht es den aus?" fragte ich zur?ck."Bikini." Ben, du bist doch intelligenter, als ich dachte." Wie kommst du den dazu?" Das m?chte ich lieber nicht sagen." Ach. I hadn't even been to an aquariumsince before the accident, which I was beginning to regret.Then, with growing curiosity, I decided that it was time to explore mysurroundings a bit more. And with a nervous smile, I pushed myself offof the floor and started swimming, or at least trying to since I'd neverdone so before. It was especially difficult because I didn't have mylegs and wasn't familiar with the new tail... but it didn't take me toolong before I started to get the hang of it.---It had. "But I am going to ask that they pay you a $1000 honorarium for it atthe next meeting. A few will object, but when I point out that it is a$4000 painting, they will all fall in line." A painting of me will be in the council offices?" River said inamazement."It is not just a painting of you, my dear," Edith said. "It is a recordof one of the most important events of our lifetime, for this band atleast. It shows the river, you, and the time when the people regainedtheir sense of purpose, learned. She got clumsy a fewtimes and earned harsh looks from Harold. She accidentally let heropinion slip into the trance, calling Joanna a bitch instead of awoman or a slut instead of a flirt. But it didn't matter. Joe didn'tmatter in the long run.Nadia mattered. What could make a girl resist her? What could make agirl refuse to go into trance and keep a bubbly smile on her face thewhole time? Nadia said she wanted to go under, well then why wouldn'tshe cooperate? If Nadia was willing, was there.