The Last Station Standing
Here, in the liquid dark, it was an executioner.
She saw them.
Above her, faces blurred by the dark water, their eyes wide with the same terrible knowledge. Kazimir, his usually granite Russian features contorted into a mask of silent terror. Jun, his arms flailing, a silent scream bubbling from his lips as he struggled against the unseen current dragging him down into the depths. They were drowning, not in the sea, but in something unclear, something that felt wrong—a thick, dark, syrupy substance that clung to her suit like tar.