In the following week Raven and the kids became good friends. She showed them another entrance to the cave on the other side of the cliff, facing inland, where she parked her hover-car. She told the kids she thought the cave must have been used by refugees during the war, and the path out to the rocks must have been used by people watching for skyships. Raven was always happy, and never seemed to get mad, even when Arthur’s robot bug ran onto her arm one day. Samantha was angry that Arthur would let one of his robots run off like that, but Raven just handed the robot back like it was nothing.

Raven liked the kids too, and took them for rides in her sub. They explored the underwater cliffs, and trenches, seeing many strange types of fish and crabs and other sea life. Goro named each type of sea creature they came across, and talked on and on about the ocean and the life in it. Fortunately for Goro, Raven was always interested in exploring the coast in her sub. She even taught them how to pilot the sub, and soon they could pilot it without any help. It was a lot of fun. One day Raven gave Goro a pile of plazper books on marine-biology...