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An Asian woman in her thirties ran out onto the deck and ordered the e raced after her

“What happened?” he asked in an Australian accent as the Chinese man slunk away in embarrassment

The woht he’d spotted a survivor and shot at them I told him we need to make this look like an accident”

“Was it a person?”

“No, thankfully Just a piece of wreckage Nobody has spotted a real survivor yet Looks like the cannon did its job”

The white man looked toward the Empiric “What about that ship?”

“It looks like the Enervuht it would, but we’ll make sure before we leave They had no idea the real experiment today would be ours” She chuckled at that, whichher of Kelly and all the others who had died on the Nae of Mark Murphy on the Eonized over his fate

The man on the trimaran scanned the water and stopped to peer at the drone Sylvia ducked behind it

“What is it?” the Asian woman asked

“That drone I think we should sink it” Sylvia heard the snapping of a bolt on an assault rifle She prepared to dive under, but she saw no other place to hide once she came back up to the surface

“No Accident, remember? Leave it there It’ll just make what happened here even more mysterious”

A few ines powered up, and it headed to the Eures board the Australian vessel, but they didn’t stay long A few minutes later, they returned to the trimaran It sailed off in the direction of Darwin

The fact that they left the E But she was glad it was still there, since it was the only ship visible on the horizon

Sylvia left the security of the floating drone and began the long swim toward the Eot there

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