Junior Jedi Knights 2. Lyric's World by Nancy Richardson

Author:Nancy Richardson [Nancy Richardson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Star Wars
ISBN: 1572970685
Published: 2019-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

NINE

Tahiri leaned forward and took one of the trico filters that lay on Sannah’s lap. Anakin stared in surprise at his friend. “I haven’t forgotten that I can’t swim,” Tahiri explained. “But there’s no way I’m going to miss this. Anyway, as long as I can breathe underwater, it doesn’t matter that I can’t swim. You and Lyric can help me.”

Tahiri took out her multitool and cut down the filter Sannah had handed her until it was the right size for her small face. Then she let Sannah tie the algae-filled filter over her nose and mouth. For a moment, Tahiri couldn’t breathe and a feeling of dizzying panic clutched at her throat. She forced herself to relax, just as she’d seen Anakin do. When she could finally breathe, she moved to the edge of the crystal blue waters.

Sannah handed Tahiri and Anakin several large rocks to place in their pockets before they entered the water. “You will need the added weight,” Sannah explained. “You are going deep.”

“I’ll help you,” Lyric sang up to Tahiri, and beckoned her friend into the waters with her pale, graceful arms. Tahiri dipped her toe into the warm water. She sat down on the rocky edge of the pool and slowly lowered herself until the water swallowed her body. Lyric floated by Tahiri’s side, her arm around the girl’s waist, her powerful tail fin keeping Tahiri’s head above water. Anakin slipped into the water and moved to Tahiri’s other side. He, too, wrapped an arm around her waist.

“Ready?” Anakin said to Tahiri.

“As I’ll ever be,” Tahiri replied with a nervous smile.

“Do not be frightened,” Lyric called to Tahiri. “We will be traveling deep within the waters to the place where the oldest of my species live. There, I hope, you will find the answer to your questions.”

Tahiri allowed herself to sink below the surface of the crystal blue water. Anakin and Lyric kept hold of her as they descended into the depths. At first Tahiri felt panicky and breathed through the filter in ragged gasps. Her eyes rolled wildly from side to side. Once, she tried to struggle out of the arms of her friends, but they held her steady until she relaxed. Tahiri saw hundreds of elder Melodies swimming around them as Lyric pulled her friends deeper and deeper with swift, powerful thrusts of her tail fin. The elders were so beautiful and graceful, Tahiri thought as they traveled through the crystal waters.

Strange, Tahiri pondered, as she studied the underwater world, it was light beneath the surface of the water. She had expected to be swallowed in blackness. The purple rocks of the mountain actually glowed, and streaks of neon scribbled through the waters as Anakin and Lyric dragged her downward.

“Kick with your feet,” a soft gurgling voice said from behind Tahiri.

Tahiri turned her head and saw an elder, his blond hair, as long as her own, floating in tendrils around his face. His tail was a darker shade of pink than Lyric’s, and it sparkled in the waters.

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