He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence.

♂: Noble Star (GB) b. M, 1927: ♂: Hapsburg (GB) br. M, 1911… ♀: Hesper (GB) gr. F, 1923… ♀: Judica (GB) F, 1937: ♂: Easton (FR) b. M, 1931… ♀: Judith (GB) ch. F, 1929…

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

[…] he couldn't see the end of the human sea: before him were twenty-five thousand people in fluo, stripey ravey gear.