Inside the forward cockpit was a beep. The metal detector had detected
something large; it stretched long and metallic left-to-right, or perhaps
right-to-left, before them. Walker brought the crawler to a stop and the last
few track revolutions dug into the sand before finally halting.
He
sent Caia out to investigate. She dropped to the sand, blower on back and
sand-boots on feet, and walked forward, sweeping the blower in arc before her.
The sand swirled up and became a red mist around her. She pulled the scarf
around her face a little tighter.
A
shiny green surface appeared just below her. The more sand she cleared the
clearer the pipe became, arching over to the other side. She removed her hands
to touch it and felt vibrations running through her arm, and when she placed
her ear to the cool metal, the sound of gushing water bellowed.
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