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“Let’s not start on that again,” she said as she cleared her regulator and e of the dive platform She stepped off the lip and dropped into the water Sam cleared his line with a hiss and followed her into the sea with a splash

Once they were below the surface, Sanal, which she returned He glanced to his right and pointed and she nodded He began swi air from his BCV as he descended Remi did the same, and several minutes later they were beside Warren and one of his divers, wearing coan dive helap in the wall and Sam swam toward it

He paused and ran his gloved hand over the edge, noting the scrapes along the rim He turned back to Warren and pointed at the naled No They hadn’t made them

Reht fro tapped his watch and pointed up, his in his deconal and watched as Greg and his coan their ascent

Saht in it The darkness lit up, and he and Ree The floor of the corridor was littered with broken chunks of block, seaweed, and barnacles

Re and waited for Sam to lead the way as Warren waited nearby Sah to accommodate both Remi and hi hiht bounced off the sheer face of the walls and played over the ceiling

Slivers of daylight glinted through cracks overhead Saht and paused before shining his bea black form swam toward hilow The eel’s sleek body, at least four feet long, undulated in serpentine waves as it darted past Re

Reht until it faded into a shadow by the gap and then turned back to where Sae of the corner block and pointed to where more of the distinctive scrapes could be made out

Sa the walls to guide their way out

Remi was behind hie, partially collapsed chaht beams roaap—this one in the floor

Sa to look around, and hovered over it, before pointing at the scrapes along the edges Rele of her head so he would see it and then she stopped, wincing The doctor’s warning about taking it easy had been forgotten in the fray, but it ca back as a lance of pain shot down her spine

Sam, unaware of his wife’s disco in as the aht in the chamber halved With another look to Re

Re as quickly as it had come They found themselves in a smaller chamber, the walls as encrusted with barnacles and ed to the nearest wall and rubbed it with his glove A s in the water like a cloud, as he eyed the stone beneath A line a quarter inch deep ran from top to bottom

He scrubbed again lower down and peered at where the line intersected another Two h to see that the indentations were carvings

A glint caught his eye, and he neared the wall until his face was only inches away The light caught the spot again and it sparkled