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- Tom swung around in the water, searching for him.
- Suddenly, a fin broke the lake's surface behind Tom.
- Shark? I thought blankly. Shark in a mountain lake?
- No, not a shark.
- A dolphin!
- Before I could move, the fin sliced through the water and something slammed straight into Tom's back.
- "Oof!" Tom arched, eyes wide with surprise, and shot forward, plowing facedown in the rippling lake.
- He didn't move after that.
- The fin - no, there were more than one - the fins slipped soundlessly below the surface.
- (...)
- Panting, I dragged Tom's body up onto the land.
- Flipped him over.
- Water streamed from his still face.
- His right leg flopped and twisted at a crazy, sickening, unnatural angle.
- "Help," I croaked, leaping to my feet. "Help!"
- Tom groaned. Coughed.
- He gagged and barfed up buckets of smelly lake water.
- "Don't move," I babbled, trying to hold him still as he thrashed. Something was wrong with his leg. There was a hinge where there shouldn't be one. "I think your leg is broken."
- (...)
- How Rachel and Ax had morphed into dolphins, rammed Tom, broken his leg, and dragged my father to safety.
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