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As they stood and gazed into the darkness, like two people waiting to see fireworks go off, a strange feeling began to creep over Kurt He could sense the hair on the back of his neck standing up

Finally, another flicker of light appeared This time, Kurt saw it plainly, but it wasn’t a flash on the horizon like a strobe light or even a definable bolt of electricity, it wasthe whole horizon, flickering di fro, as if the whole of the ocean were biolu

“Could this be an effect of the aurora?” he asked

Hayley pulled back tre “It’s not the aurora,” she said There was a chill in her voice The sound of fear

“What is it?”

“Electroe,” she said “It’s a side effect of disturbing the zero-point field”

“Because of your sensor?”

“No,” she said, shaking “It’s not us It’s Thero”

The sea flickered again, hter this time, and the ship lurched doard It happened so suddenly that Kurt and Hayley were flung to the deck The bow dug into the water, and a towering wall of spray blasted up into the air and then fell in sheets around them

Kurt pulled himself up and looked aft A line of foaht as a ruler and perpendicular to their path, but he saw no retreating wave

“Kurt,” Hayley cried

He swung his eyes forward The ocean was flickering again, a pale blue-green, just enough to show its contours in the dark Fifty yards ahead, another line was for cleaved open and forht in front of theht line, but it wasn’t a wave There was no raised vertical coap in the water, like a drainage ditch cut across a road

The Orion hit this gap at a slight angle The ship rolled aardly as she plunged into it

Kurt wrapped one arth and lacing his other arh the rail

The ship’s bow knifed into the botto as it reached the far side, co Kurt and Hayley into the air like riders who’d been tossed off a prize bull