you have controlled it by the Naming Ritual, it will soon find its proper river bed and become a good, life-giving waterway. It will restore our prosperous world to us. I will build new, clean, beautiful houses for my people, and we will have fields, forests, and flowers, too. I have not seen a flower for many years, Donna. Do you know what I mostly want? A magnificent rose garden.”

But Donna wasn’t r listening. At a little distance, she saw someone swimming. Straining her eyes, she suddenly rushed forward, jumped into the water, and swam furiously. In any alien world or strange reality, she knew only one person who could behave so calmly under such circumstances. Only Aunt Yolanda would look so dignified as she was swimming, a fat lemur balancing on her head, holding tightly to her floating auburn hair.

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