The Messenger

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Come to me.

Frightened, Eduardo Leblanc shook his head within the diving helmet, the way a dog would shake water from its fur-trying to rid himself of the voice inside his skull.

Far below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, he had lost contact with the salvage ship, the Declan. The communication unit on his diving helmet had malfunctioned. He had been listening to an exchange between Krantz-the crew’s marine archeologist, the only other diver down on this shift-and the ship. Suddenly the comm unit cut out, and Eduardo heard nothing other than the exhaust of bubbles from his helmet and the usual soft noises of his equipment.

He looked over at Krantz. Krantz was in charge here, supervising the underwater recovery work they were doing on the Morgan Bray, an American merchant ship that had sunk in 1815. The light for video equipment on the archeologist’s helmet was on, as was Eduardo’s. As far as Eduardo could tell, both cameras were still running. Through the faceplate of Krantz’s mask, Eduardo could see he was still speaking to the ship, or at least narrating what his camera was seeing.

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