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Ben sat opposite me and swiveled in his chair to look out of the , his back to me We didn’t talk at all for the next tenback around to face me, he looked disturbed

"Did you hear that?" he asked, his voice hoarse

"Hear what?" I asked, sing a mouthful of juice

His eyes narrowed and he see For all , I couldn’t understand what Ben had noticed All I could hear were quite ordinary sounds of the ship and the humans around us

"That," he replied

I stared at hiuess it was nothing"

Chapter 3: Ben

The sounds echoing in s It was as if invisible walls ca out the sounds of the cruise ship, and all went quiet… but for a few sounds Chillingly fa of water The echoing of footsteps against ht not have been so peculiar in theht have even believed that they were noises frorinding River and I had heard before we escaped The sound was unmistakable to me

It felt like I was back in The Oasis

And then the noises faded away as suddenly as they had arrived, being replaced with the bustle of s I wasn’t sure whether to tell River what I had just experienced, or wait until I had a grasp of as happening I had scared her h in the past twenty-four hours, so I decided not to Just in case what I’d heard, or thought I’d heard, had been e return to the past Perhaps the noises were i weeks down in that atriu for ain "I’m not even sure what I heard"

She frowned at me, then rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to her food We didn’t discuss it again until the noises echoed inThey reer than before

This ti like that?" I asked

She shook her head, her eyes ith alar those noises?"

"I have no idea," I replied