The Ice People 46 - The Black Water. Margit Sandemo

      At the very next moment, they were all groping for something to hold on to. The whole mountain shook beneath them. It sounded as if the wall let out a sigh as the cliff reluctantly divided itself to create an opening.

      But the next thing took them by such complete surprise that they could do nothing but let out yells of horror.

      At the very moment the door slid open, a roaring suction dragged them into the opening. Nataniel, who was standing closest to it, was sucked in so quickly that the door hadn’t even opened fully. He was hurt as he hit the hard stone edges.

      This was the whirr that they had heard at first, which rose to a roar as they got closer. Now everything was one furious roar, a hurricane that nobody could withstand.

      In that instant, all five were catapulted into a howling vacuum, in which Nataniel’s body whirled onwards in front of them like a torch of blue lighting.