THE LABYRINTH
“Then I stop.”
The lab didn’t argue.
She keyed a brief reply that promised nothing and organized everything: equipment list, permits, team names—Marie on logistics, two grad students who knew how to hold a rope, a local caver she trusted with her life, and one more name she typed and deleted, typed and deleted, then finally left: Terry Marsden.
She didn’t type Sean.
She told herself she wouldn’t.
Outside, Heraklion’s evening leaned blue against museum glass. Under the old city, tunnels a civilization had carved for gods and monsters waited, the way a throat waits for a word.
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