Page 77 of Leveling

Chapter 55

Buzz and Seggyabsolutely doubled over in laughter, hugging their sides, and asking each other, “Did you see that?”

“Oh man, he jumped!”

Seggy clapped his hands, “Smack, ouch, that must have hurt!”

They laughed some more.

Sky asked, “Is that Beckett,theBeckett?”

Luna stood still, immobile, staring at the now swimming Beckett.

None of this made sense. She couldn’t get enough information to her brain to even begin to catalogue this whole experience, it was so entirely bizarre.

She asked again, “Beckett?”

Between strokes, his head bobbed up. “Anna, wait,” though it was unnecessary, she couldn’t move, she could only stand dumbly, wondering, staring.

He took in water and coughed. “Wait, I have to—”

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