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‘What’s that?’ The mahout suddenly stiffened and stared into the middle distance. Sphax followed his gaze. There was something; a disturbance in the current; a shifting shape near the surface.
They both shot to their feet at the same moment, wide-eyed, mouths gaping. This could not be, thought Sphax! How was this possible? But there was no mistake now. The swirling current was being disturbed by elephants’ trunks, and the fleeting shapes they’d glimpsed were the ears and rumps of the beasts. It was a sight that Sphax would remember to the end of his days. Slowly, ponderously, the outline of five elephants gradually emerged from the waters of the Rhodanus, like shades passing through the veil of the underworld into the land of the living. Flapping ears and trunks like dogs shaking water from their fur, they marched up the bank to be greeted by the old cow and a jubilant mahout, dancing and splashing around in the mud. Nothing could bring back Fuabal and Mintho, but at least they hadn’t died in vain. Their elephants, and those on the other raft, were the first to make it across the great river.
Sphax imagined them pounding along the riverbed, in that underwater world of flowing grasses he’d glimpsed himself for an awful moment, trunks raised high out of water to fill their lungs with life-giving air, untroubled by the racing currents swirling above their heads. They were truly remarkable creatures. Nevertheless, it was nothing short of miraculous they had made it across.
The mahout, whose name he discovered was Mathos, was now rounding up the six elephants and leading them to a holding area well supplied with low growing trees and shrubs for the animals to browse upon. ‘I’ll need your help, Sphax,’ he said. ‘You’re now a mahout.’
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