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“What happened?” Eddie asked

“We were attacked It disabled the entire crew except for Linda here If she weren’t deaf, we’d probably all be at the bottoht now”

“What are the casualties besides your nose?”

“Luckily, nothing too serious,” Linda said “Four broken bones, two concussions, and a good number of stitches required”

Eddie was surprised Linda had responded to him since Max just said she was deaf When she noticed his puzzled expression, she added, “I can’t hear you, but lasses translate your speech to text”

“How’s the ship?”

“Soe to the port torpedo tubes and the forward operational crane, but it could have been much worse”

“How did all that happen?”

“Fro at his nose “That’s how I got this Linda had to put a boot tous all I certainly deserved it”

“It’s not your fault,” Linda said, patting him on the shoulder “Believe me, I knohat it feels like to be out of control from the effects of that sonic weapon”

“We e since the effects dissipated once Linda evacuated the tranquilizer gas,” Max said “We think it was some kind of underwater device, but we never pinpointed the source”

“Can’t wait to hear more about that,” Eddie said

“What about the Chairnal?”

“We’re tracking two,” Max said “The original one is currently on a coht headed to New York We think that’s a decoy”

“And the backup?” Eddie asked “Is that one still on the Portland?”