When the kids got back to the outpost, they found Ms. Rylie waiting for them at the door.

"Where have you been?" she demanded. "I’ve been worried sick about you."

She looked sick, and even while she was speaking she trembled a bit, and Arthur jumped forward and caught her as she fainted.

"You shouldn’t be out here," he said, helping her indoors, and to the couch. "Sorry we worried you. Samantha, bring her some water."

Ms. Rylie was feeling a bit better after she drank the water, but it was clear she was really sick.

"We’d better not tell her about Goro," Samantha whispered to Kiyoko. "It’ll just make her worry, and there’s nothing she can do."

"I’ll help you to bed," Samantha offered her mother.

As soon as Samantha and her mother left, Arthur went to look for Os'Surale. ‘He’s not back yet,’ he realized as he looked into the garage and saw the old hover-car was still missing. ‘Great, then he can’t know we took his sub.’ He went back inside, and found Kiyoko pacing back and forth in the living room, looking out to sea...