Time Riders

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‘Anyone left here on deck E?’ cried Liam O’Connor. His voiceechoed down the narrow passageway, bouncing off the metal walls. ‘Anyone downhere?’

It was silent save for the muffled cries and clatter of hasty footsteps coming from the deckabove and the deep mournful creak of the ship’s hull, stressing and stretching as thebow end of the ship slowly dipped below the ocean’s surface.

Liam braced himself against the gradually steepening angle of the floor, holding on to thedoorframe of the cabin beside him. The chief steward’s instructions had been clear- to ensure every cabin at this end of the deck was empty before coming up and joininghim.

He wasn’t sure he wanted to; the screaming and wailing of women and children that hecould hear coming down the stairwell from above sounded shrill and terrifying. At least hereon deck E, amid the second-class cabins, there was an eerie sense of peace. Not quite silent,though. Far away, he could hear a deep rumble and knew it was the sound of the freezing oceancascading into the stricken ship, roaring through open bulkheads, gradually pulling herdown.

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