When I looked up, I realized that for every ten yards I was gaining, the tide was opening the gap between us by thirty or forty yards, maybe more.”
“You lost sight of her?”
“I saw her go under. More importantly, which of us will
become the baseline evermind?” The twin spheres were so agitated that the coded
electrical impulses increased in intensity, like lightning bolts, and their
electronic vocal sounds boomed across the plaza?