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"I saw the giant whirlpool you created That was more than a set of pursed lips"

"A whirlpool!"

Austin gave him a condensed version of the maelstrom and the disaster it nearly caused

Barrett whistled "I knew about the giant waves we created with one of our field tests The kickback sunk a cargo ship and one of our transmitter vessels"

"Soives back what it takes The whirlpool churned up your transed to board her before she sank"

Barrett looked stunned at the revelation

"What's goin

g on, Spider?"

The question shocked Barrett out of his daze

"We didn't consider the violent ocean disruptions that would be caused by the anonetic field From what you told me, the disruptions continued even after we stopped transma under the earth's crust must continue to move even after the initial stimulus It's like the secondary ripples that bounce around a pond when you throw a rock into the water That's the dangerous part of the theorems It's orried Kovacs The unpredictability of the whole thing"

"What were you doing the day I saw you in Puget Sound?"

"After the Southern Belle sank, I went back to the drawing board I was conducting a test, using a miniaturized version of the setup on the transmitter"

"That's what drove the orcas into a frenzy?"

He nodded

"What was the problem?"