So…yeah…*awkward moment* What do you think of the new Uglies covers?
And yes, this chapter is extremely short, but I'm too lazy to come up with more stories.
DISCLAIMER: Still not mine…not even the inspiration this time. Request from purplerose34, "Alek doesn't know how to swim and Deryn (still Dylan is this) they're in Japan. Deryn teaches Alek to swim and he's totally scared!"
The best way to learn to swim is if you're pushed in.
"Allow me," Newkirk proclaimed with an evil glint in his eyes. He stepped forward and roughly shoved Alek into the water.
Alek teetered backwards for an endless moment, until finally, gravity won and pulled him into the glittering water. He flailed wildly, sending great big plumes of water arcing around him. "Help! Help! I'm drowni—oh," he remarked, standing up in the knee-high water. He glared at the two middies that were bent over with laughter.
"Water does help, in fact!" Newkirk grinned.
"I—what? Oh…heh, heh…" Alek remembered a previous incident with water.
"Ack—glub—help! What are you—hic—doing, you bum-rag?"
"Trying to get rid of your hiccups!" Alek yelled from his perch atop the Leviathan, watching Newkirk flailing in the waves. "I heard that water was supposed to help!"
Yeah…I realized I'd tortured Newkirk a tad too much in chapter 10, so I decided he deserved a bit of revenge. Sorry purplerose34 if this doesn't quite fit the criteria.
Answer: Well, in the two page illustration in Behemoth with the naval battle, the Leviathan is up in the corner, and there isn't really a tail, just a tapered point. Meh…a tail would be nice.
Question: Clankinist or Darwanker? For that matter…Darwinist or Clanker?
By the way, would you all mind if when reviewing, you mention your opinion on the story, not just answer the question? Thanks!