THE FURY: TRIPLETS
We went through in single file and the corridor beyond already smelled like salt water and the deep structural groan of the rig's compromised legs was now continuous, a bass note that did not stop.
"Top level," Sloane said. "Helipad. Move."
The stairs were steel mesh and the first landing was already wet, water sheeting down from somewhere above and below simultaneously, the ocean finding every crack the explosions had opened. I ran and did not look down and focused on the next step and the one after that and Lucian's back directly in front of me.
Third level.
Two figures came out of a service doorway with weapons up.
Gavin hit the first one before he finished raising his aim. Clean, fast, s