C172 You Bastard Are You a Verb or a Tone?

"Yes," Chiang Chen said, plucking a reed and twirling it in his fingers. "There was a small wooden boat tied up at the edge of the reed marsh. You skipped your nap at noon, sneaked out to go rowing, and ended up falling into the water. If I hadn't spotted you in time and dived in to rescue you, you would've drowned.

Then you came down with a high fever