Part 2: His Preposterous Heritage, Chapter 15 - 16 Summary

Michael swims to the bottom of the swimming pool and goes into his dormant state. He thinks about what is going on and tries to grok it, but the English language still confuses him. He then thinks about Jubal's directive to stay at the bottom of the pool and concludes that he meant only the body, not the consciousness. Michael leaves his body and witnesses the events around the pool in his ethereal being.

The police vehicle lands in the garden, and Michael senses a great wrongness in this act. He watches as Jubal hollers angrily at the police, something that Martians never do. He reads the moods of Dorcas, Larry, Miriam and Anne and comes to realize that they are all Jubal's water brothers, and thereby his water brothers too. Jill's mood...