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Wo all of you back to Australia The Royal Darwin Hospital is ready to treat you” She obviously meant Sylvia as well
“Co”
She put on her mask and led Womack to the control roo on the paralyzed occupants Sylvia save his shoulder a squeeze
“Help has arrived, Mark,” she told him “This is Lieutenant Wo to show her what happened here, and then we’ll get you to their ship”
He grunted in response Sylvia sat down at a terminal to pull up the video files that had the time codes of the experiment
She skipped past the part showing the plasma shield and played from the point just before the attack She could see the drone dead in the water, and two people were standing at the railing of the Nah the ship was too distant to identify that it was her and Kelly She sed a sob at seeing her assistant
“The person on the right isto herself on the screen
A ht was so bright that you couldn’t see the figures any as Kelly ran into the ship Another blast ripped apart the superstructure That’s when she went into the water Seeing it from this perspective sent a chill down her spine
Explosions continued to rip apart the Na hulk, with a dense cloud of s toward the Empiric’s camera It sank into the water and disappeared
“That was the attack?” Womack asked
Sylvia heard the disbelief in her question and understood why Only now as she watched the video did Sylvia see that the plasht by the Empiric’s camera To the untrained eye, it could look as if the Namaka was blown apart from the inside
“Where’s the attacking ship?”
“It’s co soon,” Sylvia said She advanced the video to the point where the trimaran came to search for survivors, but the screen went black before she got there There was nothing
Sylvia’s stomach went cold when she understood the reason there was no video evidence That’s why the killers fro any proof they’d ever been there Then they sent out a fake distress call to make it look like the whole episode was a freak accident The Ocean Protector had been on its way long before Sylvia had called Juan Cabrillo because the attackers had wanted them found
The question hy?