Twenty Healers were still standing in a circular formation around Queen Eloner's body. They stood on the sacred river, creating a barrier between their formation with a bubble of life, where the babies were growing.
In their hands had flowed a gush of energy in the form of water, which they had drawn from the river. Like tendrils that came to life, then coiled around each other, and then their shape became more and more strange. The tendrils of water had climbed to the surface of the river, and then touched the footing of the water, where the Healers were standing.
The tendrils of water seemed to crawl, then broke through the footing and began to surround the feet of the Healers. Movement never stopped, as if alive. Hands were their main goal. The Healers' dark robes seemed to have been swallowed with the water, or perhaps contaminated so that they looked as if they were camouflaged. The Healers seemed to be drowning, even though they weren't.
