"Hydrogen. . ." Shudder. "I guess people didn't know what perils they were subjecting themselves to, in the early days of flight in your world."

They finish hauling the man's friends out of the mud, and then he's the last. He drops the rope around himself and allows himself to be pulled to dry land, and then he stands talking to his friends and shivering a little from the saturated clothing. He refuses Curufin's jacket but drapes it around one of his friends' shoulders.

"We'd better get these people up the cliffs," says Curufin to Kaito. "Thanks for the help! You're good at this sort of thing."