Chapter 44: Into the Dark Water

Getting the crew assembled in the first place had taken precious minutes none of them could afford — Cully hauling on his gear half-asleep, Reyes scrambling to set up the shore-side radio relay, Oda barking orders with the crisp, economical urgency of a woman who had run a hundred emergency departures in her life and had never once let the pressure show in her voice, even now, even with the storm...