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Debes de ser unas aguas revueltas, porque estás tan buena que me cuesta mantenerme en pie.
“You must be the riptide, ’cause you sweep me off my feet.”
Algunos, los de aguas revueltas, reclaman el derecho exclusivo al nombre verdadero, aunque todo el mundo se ahoga tras ellos.
Some, the riptide ones, claim exclusive right to the real name, even though everybody drowns in its wake.
Su padre, que tenía tendencia a sufrir heridas poco importantes, tenía tanto miedo a las aguas revueltas que incluso se negaba a meterse en el agua.
His father, who was prone to minor injury, was so afraid of riptides that he refused to even go into the water.
—tantea terreno Rose, sospechando que la hiperkinesia en ella es apenas camuflaje para el río de aguas revueltas que lleva por dentro—. De veras, te felicito, es increíble lo que has avanzado. —Sí —dice ella—.
Rose ventured, suspecting that her hyperactivity was just a camouflage for the riptides that were forcefully flowing inside her. “Really, congratulations, it’s amazing how fast you have learned.”
En esa hora o dos en las que la isla era visible a causa de la marea baja, las ratas, en algunas ocasiones, se dirigían hacia allí; nunca eran más de doce, y las aguas revueltas siempre las devolvían al punto de partida.
When it appeared for that hour or two as the current reached its lowest ebb, sometimes they’d swim for it, these rats, never more than a dozen or so and always driven back by the riptide.
—preguntó Ben, al que le costaba seguirnos. No era culpa suya, seguía intentando no ahogarse en lo impensable, como un pobre nadador atrapado en aguas revueltas. —Matarla primero —explicó Evan. 39
“Do it without . . . what?” Ben was having a hard time following. Not his fault. He was still flailing in the unthinkable place like a poor swimmer caught in a riptide. “Killing her first,” Evan explained. 39
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