"FWLS12" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

Sally swung down on a loose bridge cable, neatly slamming into
Eroki, who was tying her show. Newton's laws boasted their power
as she was pushed over the railing of the bridge.

"JEEZ!" I exclaimed, running over to the bridge.

"Help!" she begged, hanging onto the sub-railing with both
hands. That water's got to be pretty deep and cold, adding to
the fact that we're maybe thirty feet above it.

"Will you PLEASE GO AWAY?!" I shouted to the crazed Murfle.
"Yes, thank you for liking my poetry, but you're in dire need of
help by men in white coats, so go talk to them about it instead
of me, okay?"

"But HONEY!" Sally pouted. "We can't be together until this
piece of trash is out of the way."

"Hey!" shouted a panicked but annoyed voice from below the
railing.

"I have doubts as to what plane of reality YOU exist in," I
said, "But in this one, we never have and never will be an item.
In fact, I had no idea you even existed until tonight, a bit of
knowledge I regret knowing."

"Poo," she pooed. "You're no fun anymore." With that, she
made two neat slashes in the air with the sword. I dived out of
the way, before realizing I wasn't the target.

The combination of a rapidly fading scream and a large chunk
of the railing missing supplied me with enough information to
convict with. I ignored any possible danger and wrenched the
sword out of her hands.

"Hey! Gimmie that back!" Sally whined.

"You want this?" I said, throwing it as far as possible into
the river. "Go get it. Me, I've got more important things to
do."

Holding my breath, I dived into the C'atel river.

*

Swimming through the river is a lot like walking C'atellian
streets. It's cold, wet, and isn't very clean.

I certainly was an adept swimmer, but I had megadoubts as to
how good Eroki was at it. I tried to see through the water, but