Chapter 415: Continuing Across the Bog
Kim saw the storm clouds on the horizon when she came out of the lair. The clouds hadn't been in there when they'd first gone in, which meant they were new. It also meant that they were likely heading in their direction and she didn't like the look of them.
Naturally, they could take shelter in the lair, but Kim couldn't say how much water would be coming down and as she thought about it, the lair only had a single place where water would be able to drain from, and given this was a bog, she had the feeling that this lair would fill up with water easily in a heavy rain.
Plus, if they went back to the island that they had before, she wouldn't be surprised if it wouldn't be viable in as heavy of a rain as the cloud seemed to promise. A promise she didn't want to be present to see fulfilled.
"We need to get moving," Kim said, looking around to make sure that there wasn't a rocky island that they could use instead to rest on, even if they had to sit outside in a heavy rain as they waited for it to pass. "I'd like to be as far along the bag as we can by the time it arrives."
"Sure it'll be coming this way?" Patricia asked. "I'd rather take a nap."
Kim merely shook her head. She couldn't be sure that it wouldn't head their way, but she also couldn't be sure that it would. It wasn't like she knew what the weather report would have said if they had anything like that on this world.
"Don't know," Kim said. "Maybe this place will be dry, but maybe it'll fill the lair up with water. I don't want to find out by waiting around."
"Yeah, but if we're walking around the bog, in the rain, we'll have an increased chance to encountering quicksand. And I'm sure you don't need to be told how dangerous that is," Patrick remarked.
"No, I don't need to be told, but are you willing to take that risk? Personally I'd rather be moving along than to find where we're standing would become quicksand."