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Then, after an agonizing pause, he heard a

Kurt Austin

Kane had been sitting with his head down and hunched over his knees Raising his chin off his chest, he glanced toward Zavala with rheumy, unfocused eyes

“Wha’sat?” he said, his words drunkenly slurred froen

Zavala’s cracked lips widened in a ghost of a smile

“The cavalry has arrived”

AUSTIN CROUCHED ON TOP of the bathysphere like a spider, using his manipulator claw to tap out letters A deepwater suit’s size and shape makes it susceptible to currents, and a bottom eddy threatened to push him off his perch He hooked the cable to the top of the sphere, clamped aoff, anddown into thethe sphere

He depressed a foot pedal and was i cloud of stirred-up silt that settled after a low coh the B3’s previously buried s indicated that systehts on and off to get Zavala’s attention

Zavala saw the flashing lights, and his ishness

Kane had seen the lights as well

“What should we do?” he asked

Zavala hungered for the opportunity to do soet out of this mess, but he knew they would have to be patient

“We wait,” he said

AUSTIN UNCLAMPED HIS MANIPULATOR froe on the bathysphere’s skin He got out only a few letters before the current suddenly caught his suit and pushed hi control, he returned to tap out more letters

The Hardsuit’s cales to the surface ship