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roves that grow along the shore in the more
sheltered areas.
"Mary!" I said, swimming onto the sand beside her. "Are you OK?"
"Kent!" called, and then grinned wryly. "I'm not sure about being
OK. God! I see you're in the same boat though."
"You don't know how awful it was when I found your legs hanging bloody
from your flippers," I said, hugging her.
"You mean!" said, and then paused, looking sick. "I remember my legs
hurting like hell just before I blacked out, but É" looked down at
her tail and drew a deep breath. "I'm sorry, I'd sort of imagined that I
was still there, inside."
"Sorry," I said, feeling lame. "Let me look at you."
rolled onto 's back in the shallow water and relaxed while I
explored 's body. was as thin as I was, not as bad as a few days
ago, but thin. The fish half of 's was noticably longer than 's legs
had ever been, with a dorsal fin on the back and a pair of pectoral fins
below 's gills. 's buttocks were gone, merged into a rounded mound of
fish, but when I looked for evidence of the fish's eyes on what must once
have been its face, all I could find was a pair of small scars.
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