“Huck owes me no debt,” Tress said. “He wouldn’t be on this ship except for me.” Which means he’d be on the bottom of the Verdant Sea. I doubt he’d have made it to the bottom. Rats are rather low in body mass. He’d almost certainly have ended up wrapped in a vine ball, drifting through the middle depths of the ocean until he decomposed. But as no one in the room was versed in spore depth density and relative fluidized viscosity, they took Fort’s words as fact.
