The guards hover an inch from the surface of the lake, but as soon as they touch it they’re doggy-paddling, hapless. Tyler doesn’t even body-check them. He just skates around, tripping.<\/p>\n
On the shore, Daniel’s eating popcorn. Toe kicks an irritated rock.<\/p>\n
“I don’t get it,” he mutters. “I bet we could do that too if we could–I mean, where’s his weight distributed? What’s holding him up?”<\/p>\n
“Tension,” says Dylan, too close to his ear.<\/p>\n
Tyler leans down to brush wave-tips with one finger, and his sandals slice a glittering wave from the arc of his turn.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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