Tiberius, thrashing about in the black water, almost took a tumble.
Bramble seized the opportunity of his pause, desperately extending its thorny branches to absorb the water.
Soon, Caleb Colby and Finn Ford rowed over in their small wooden boat. Once they filled the barrels they had brought, they would paddle back to Faye Yardley's Dragon Turtle Raft. There, they would trade out the contents, switch to empty barrels, and set off again.
As for what Master Veridian needed, that was left for Tiberius to handle. After all, with Gavin Donovan on his brother's team, they were basically all in it together.
Faye Yardley, meanwhile, took all the newly crafted large wooden barrels and made her way to the edge of the underwater vortex.
After filling all the barrels with black water, she stepped onto the vortex and was launched back up to the surface.
Although the area of black water was shrinking, the vortex's strength hadn't diminished.
