file:C|Documents%20and%20Settingsharry%20kruiswijkMijn%20documentenspaarKevin%20J.%20Anderson%20-%20Saga%20of%20Seven%20Suns%2003%20-%20Horizon%20Storms.txt by Anderson Kevin J

Author:Anderson, Kevin J
Language: eng
Format: epub

Jess used his own connection with the wentals to be part of this sentient ocean. He stepped out onto the choppy surface of the water and walked from his globular vessel across the wavetops. Enhanced surface tension buoyed each step, keeping him from sinking, until he reached the rocks where the others waited for him. The Roamers stared at him in awe.

Jess gestured past the wave-swept shore. As if on cue, a symphony of lightning played like musical notes across the sky. "See what the wentals can do? We've got to help bring them into the fight against the hydrogues."

Nikko grinned. "We're ready."

"I could easily have given you water from my own ship at Rendezvous . . . but I didn't want you to accept this mission just on the basis of my words. Look around you! I needed you tosee this power, this gathering storm the wentals can command against the hydrogues! Witness the potential."

All the Roamers stared at the fervid ocean. Currents of glowing life force streamed through the waves, anxious to be turned loose. The water elementals made the alien seas thrash and seethe. Jess's companions muttered appreciatively.

"Even a sample of wental water can spread and reproduce in another body of liquid, like a match lighting one candle after another. I could do this alone, one world at a time, but it would take too long."

Jess dipped his hand into the water and held up a palmful of the dripping silvery liquid. "The wentals are as eager to go as you are. Here, take as much as you like. Fill containers, and then disperse them to each world on your lists."

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Nikko hurried back to his small craft and rolled out a hollow polymer drum. "Should I just . . . dip this into the ocean?" But as the young man brought the container close, the water itself came alive. Looking like a jellyfish, it rose up in a gelatinous plume, wavered, and then deposited itself into the barrel; whatever did not fit sloshed back into the ocean. "Shizz, did you see that?"

The other Roamers ran to their crafts and brought out containers. Limbs of vibrant water rose up to fill each one. With the cooperation of the wentals inside, Nikko found that he could carry the laden barrel as if it weighed nothing at all, as if water entities could somehow manipulate the gravity on this whole planet. "It feels electrical. My fingers tingle."

Jess stood watching his new recruits fill their cargo holds with the wental essence. They would disperse, and they would find other ocean worlds that could make the strange new ally strong. He envied these volunteers their sense of wonder.

He wished he could go with them, but he had a different mission now, and it consumed him almost as much as his love for Cesca.

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