Theo's group assembled the carriage and moved all of the stuff from the boats onto it before taking utmost care not to injure Theo any further while moving his unconscious body and the little kid glued to his lap. And with all of those things done, Nay simply discarded the now-empty boats, making two horses lead the carriage while keeping the third one on a long leash attached to the side of the wagon.
And so, the small group moved ahead, racing against the incoming tide to reach the properly solid ground.
They raced ahead, while masses of water swung to the eastern side of the lake, propelled by the unknown force residing in the lake's center.
They moved east while the entire world continued to shake under the constant onslaught of endless battles that the human eye could never record.
The forces of gravity clashed with the resistance of all the matter to be squeezed beyond its natural limits.
