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“I think so I have not used my inhaler since” Her voice trailed off

“But you stayed on the oxygen?”

“I sahat happened to Dr Pass they had breathed, so I kept using it”

“You are a brave and resourceful girl I think you saved your life by doing that”

Knowing she had done soave Jannike a bit of confidence, and hope that she would get off the ship alive

Eddie jogged back into the room “The blast wrecked the hallway about twenty yards froo back up the e came”

“Is there another way?”

“We better hope so I can hear the lower part of the ship flooding”

WATER SURGED UNDER the ja tide, and, if not for the protection of his hazmat suit, with its own air supply, Cabrillo would have drowned After a few ain to free his crushed prosthesis, he lay back and let the sea roar over hiine roo by the second

Juan’s only consolation was that the rest of his team hadn’t ventured this deep into the Golden Dawn and would be able to escape relatively easily

During his earlier exa spaces, he hadn’t seen any victims of the virus, or whatever had been unleashed on the ship, telling hi on autoe and no one down here to monitor the power plants With no one to infect, he wondered, how long would the pathogen reht have an idea, but this was a new virus, even for her, so, at best, she could uess

The air conditioners had been shut down for a while, letting dust and h time elapsed? Cabrillo could only hope so, because he knew that by lying in the torrent of rising water and thinking about it, he was just putting off the inevitable

He worried his right arm free of his sleeve and snaked it down across his chest to his right leg He took a handful of cloth from the bottom of his pants and yanked it upward over his artificial li him access to the straps that held it in place With practiced fingers, he released the straps and popped the slight vacuu to his stu the lih his suit remained pinned beneath the door

Now for the hard part Juan reached over his shoulder to crank up the airflow in his suit and felt it balloon out against its seaarette lighter, although all he sar; the other tere a co knife He pulled the knife from his pocket and opened the blade with one hand He had to lie in a fetal position to reach as far down his pant leg as he could, fighting the weight of water still pouring in from under the door

The knife was as sharp as a scalpel and sliced though the protective hazush from the slit, and, for ato exploit the cut, but the suit soon began to fill Juan worked faster, slicing through the material in a race to free hi on his side, and the water pressed against his face forced him to turn his head and try to raise hi track of where he was cutting the suit