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"Can anyone hear that?" Worried Jacky. He was stoutly ignored.
"We have to get moving people. We can't just stay here." Jade said, unholstering the pulse rifle that had been handed to her and checking through the safeties.
"No seriously... Like a wooshing roaring sound..." Jacky said looking up the hill in the burrow towards the sound.
"What are you...?" The rest of Jade's sentence was lost as a monumental wave of water rolled down the steep slope they were resting on. It ate up the ground like a mole on speed. The churning boiling water taking away any sound with it's crashing din.
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Jacky woke up with a headache. He got up very slowly as it all came back to him.

Water. Rushing water. He'd drowned.

Wait, no. He didn't drown. He was alive. Apparently.

"Oh my!" a voice called from the other end of the room. "You're awake!"

Jacky tried opening his eyes, but found his vision to be blurred by water and head trauma.

"No no no." the voice said. "Lie down. You needn't stress yourself."

Jacky complied, lying down and speaking to the entity in the room.

"What happened? Where am I?" he asked.

"You're being taken care of. Nearly drowned, you. With that head wound and the water, you're very lucky to be alive. It's all fine now, of course."

"Well, I'm thankful. I'd love to repay you." Jacky said. "Have you seen the others?"

"Others?!" the figure screeched. "There are more humans here?!"

"Humans?" Jacky repeated. He rubbed his eyes furiously.

Standing above him was a Roo, wearing a large and silly hat.

"I'd love to meet them! Promise you won't tell any of the authorities? Wild humans are outlawed." the Roo said.

Jacky stared at him intently. He decided that things could be worse. Actually, things could be a lot worse, he realized. This creature trusting him could provide Jacky the answers to so many great scientific questions!

"Allow me a few minutes to dry off and we'll figure something out." he said, containing his excitement. "I have a few questions of my own."

"Questions? What kind?" the Roo asked.

"Just a few small, insignificant ones."

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