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“The blue medusa?”

“That’s right” She seehly toxic sea wasp How did you know about it?”

“I badgered Dr Mayhew, and he showed me the research room”

“I’m amazed that he allowed you to see it,” Lee said She stared at Ga her for the first time “I just realized that I really don’t knoho you are”

“I’ist with NUMA I came to Bonefish Key because I was interested in ocean biomedicine”

“From the looks of it, you were more interested in me,” Lee said

“Sos just happen,” Gamay said

Lee smiled

“You sound like a Chinese philosopher, Dr Trout Anyway, I’ht not be here”

“Dr Mayhew said the blue medusa was a new species”

“That’s right Bigger and ressive than the sea wasp After the work ineering to produce a more powerful toxin”

“I wasn’t aware there was another lab,” Gamay said

“It was secret They called it Da

vy Jones’s Locker Dr Kane and Lois Mitchell, his assistant, left Bonefish Key and took a number of scientists and technicians with the staff stayed on to inal research I was charting the probable spread of the virus and how best to contain it”

“How effective was the toxin-derived drug?” Paul said