Into The Black: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror by William Meikle

Author:William Meikle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-05-29T07:00:00+00:00

There was little chance of either of them getting back to sleep. They sat, snuggled close, in the small sofa in the cabin, smoking, drinking coffee and working their way down the bottle of Scotch.

There was no recurrence of the tune.

“We’ve found it,” Fallon said. “But now what?”

“Well I didn’t come all this way to turn around and go home again,” Val replied. “There’s something down there beneath us. I’m going to go and have a look.”

“Can’t it wait until morning?”

Val turned his head to look out the porthole. There was thin sunlight outside.

Half an hour later, stomach full of eggs, bacon and toast, he stood on deck watching Val put on flippers and a snorkel.

“Are you sure you won’t join me?” she said, smiling.

He had a bad feeling in the pit of his gut, but forced himself to smile back.

“My swimming is on a par with my driving,” he said. “Besides, someone needs to watch out for you from up here. Looks like I’m it.”

She dove over the side, going in with scarcely a splash and, as graceful as if she was born to it, swam in a small circle before, with a quick wave, going under. For a time he could see her shape, pale against the darker sea-bed below, and see the bubbles rise to the surface to mark where she’d been.

Then everything went still and quiet; there was only the sound of some gulls high above and the rattle of pebbles as the tide sucked at the base of The Old Man.

Val?

He walked round the yacht, checking both sides. There was no sign of her.

“Val!” he shouted, panic rising.

“Down here,” came the reply. She was at the stern, struggling to keep afloat while holding something heavy in her hands. The next couple of minutes were a struggle that might have been almost comical in other circumstances, as Fallon tried to help her aboard, only to have her fall back into the sea, twice before she finally pulled herself, laughing, up onto deck.

“We got it,” she said, and rolled aside to let Fallon see what she had brought up from below.

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