"They--they run entirely underwater for ever so far and come out
beneath the _Dra Dur_. The Anolyn built them that way in order to keep
the humans from escaping through them."
Jupiter swore in Lingua Galactica. "Suppose we go back to the streets.
Can we reach the top of the wall? Does the sea come right up to its
base?"
"Yes," Tabak said with a shiver.
Reiloc had stretched Lete out on the shelf. She was returning to
consciousness, Jupiter saw; and he stooped, splashing water from the
canal into the cave girl's face. Her eyes opened groggily. She pushed
herself to her elbows, stared about her with the quick, terrified look
of a wild thing.
"You all right?" Jupiter asked.