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“Good,” a female voice said “If we blow ourselves up, you’ll be the first to know”

“I thought you were ordered topside,” Pitt said to Gamay

“She was,” Paul replied “But she suddenly ca impairment and missed that order”

“I understand,” Pitt said “Whenever you’re ready”

A few seconds of silence ca power-up sequence in five… four…”

“Wait!” a voice shouted from Pitt’s outer office “Wait!”

Hiraer rushed in with a set of papers in his hands “I’ve found so”

“Stand by,” Pitt said into the phone “What do you have, Hiram? Tell me it’s Thero”

“Not exactly” He handed over a printed page with a blue background and a jagged line crisscrossing it It looked like a game of connect the dots

“What is this?” Pitt asked

“It’s a ship’s course over the last forty-eight hours,” Yaeger said

“What ship?”

Hira He’d run all the way up froh “I don’t knohat ship exactly,” he said “But it’s important — I’m sure of it”

Pitt didn’t doubt his friend but he needed clarity “What exactly are you talking about?”

“There’s a stor down there,” he said “Any ships in the area should be getting out of the way, or at least transiting with all due haste, but this one is changing course at odd hours and intervals and all but driving in circles It’s taken her two full days to arrive where she is now