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Originally Posted by Tucson_Tim
It's been a long time since I read the book. But I recall the drowning of baby worms to create the "elixer of love" or whatever. So maybe water doesn't hurt them at all.
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It does, water is poisonous to them, but not deadly except in large doses. "Drowning" was not technically accurate, as killing baby worms by suffocation --assuming their metabolism even allows that-- does not make them produce the "Water-of-life" chemical. It has to be through total immersion in water.
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