The Ferry by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“You’re out of your minds,” Louis shouts as we hurry across the beach, making our way to the inflatable dinghy. “When Stratton finds out about this, he’s going to have the pair of you crucified!”

“Most likely,” Mark replies, wading into the water and immediately tossing the rest of our gear into the dinghy. “Fortunately, my resignation goes into effect in about twelve hours’ time anyway, so it’s not as if he can haul me over the coals for too long. And don’t worry, we won’t tell him that you knew what we were doing.”

“What about Carter and the survivor?” I ask. “How long before the new medical team gets here from London?”

“An hour at most,” Mark replies, “which is why we need to get out to the wreck site before then. As soon as London takes charge of this thing, it’ll be taken out of our hands. We need to find out what the hell’s going on while we still can. If we wait for other people, the ferry’s going to slip away again.”

“I doubt anything that large can slip away,” I tell him.

“I’m not taking any chances.”

“So let me get this straight,” Louis continues. “After everything that’s happened, with one man clearly sick and another who doesn’t seem to speak any language that’s been heard before, you two want to go out there and dive to the wreck? Without any back-up?”

“Sounds about right,” Mark mutters. “I’m sure as hell not going to sit around waiting all over again.”

“Me neither,” I reply, climbing into the dinghy. “Not after what I’ve seen so far today. Besides, there’s still an outside chance of someone being alive in that thing, maybe trapped in an air pocket.”

“You don’t seriously believe that, do you?” Louis asks. “There’s no chance!”

“Get back to the trailers,” Mark tells him, “and make sure no-one starts seriously looking for us until we’ve been gone for at least a couple of hours. By then, people from London are going to start showing up and the site’s probably going to be in full lock-down, especially if they think there’s any kind of disease. This is our last chance to see the damn thing.”

“Two hours, huh?” Louis replies. “And where will you guys be by that point?”

“Hopefully using this stuff,” I point out, holding up one of the diving masks, “and getting to the bottom of whatever’s going on with that ferry.”

***

With a decent outboard motor and some prevailing tides that help us on our way, we reach the location of the sunken ferry must faster than we could have dared hope. The weather all around us is still pretty bad, with choppy waves and a gray, threatening sky, but the worst of the storm has moved east and there are no safety-related reasons for us to hold back from the dive. After all, Mark and I both have more than enough experience with this sort of thing, even if a few of my certificates are a little out of date.

“Think they’re missing us yet?” he asks as he finishes getting into his diving gear.

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