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"You knoho that is," Amy said impassively

It was a whale They were balanced like a pea atop its iher it lifted them into the air One flick of its ; it would crash down upon them and smash their boat to pieces A hopeless terror, that of fate, took her in its grasp Froh

"I’m so…tired of him," she said

Alicia tried to screa, the sea was falling away, the whale was loo up…

She aith a slaht She was in the back of the truck, and the truck was bouncing hard Sara’s face floated into view

"Lish? What is it?"

Her lips "

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Shit Shit shit shit

Michael took the stairs from the pilothouse three at a ti steel, and down the hatch He was yelling into his radio, "Rand, get down here right now!"

He hit the engineering catwalk at a sprint, grabbed the poles of the ladder, and slid the rest of the way The engines were quiet, everything stopped Rand appeared above hi tripped theshots up here"

"Say again?"

"Gunshots, Michael I’ this way frohts or virals?"

"I’m not sure"

He needed current to trace the problenostics over to the auxiliary generator The meters ju?"

Rand was positioned at the engine-control array on the far side of the roo in the water jacket pumps"