The ascent from the Mid-Atlantic Junction was a grueling, pressurized crawl. Inside the Wraith-Sub, the silence was no longer heavy with grief, but electric with anticipation. Julian sat with his hand resting on the data-uplink light, which pulsed a steady, triumphant green."We're hitting the thermocline," Julian said, his voice regaining that sharp, executive edge. He checked the external sensors. "Clara, the Legacy is drifting. The mooring line is slack."Clara’s hand moved to her sidearm. The emerald silk of her dress was crumpled under her flight jacket, a symbol of the two worlds they were currently straddling. "Maybe it's just the gale, Julian. You said a storm was rolling in.""A storm doesn't cut a high-tensile magnetic tether," Julian muttered.As the sub broke the surface, the slate-grey Atlantic didn't greet them with the spray of a storm. It greeted them with the blinding, artificial sun of a Sovereignty Searchlight.The Ambush at SeaThe Vance-Thorne Legacy wasn't drifti
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