Alpha’s regret : The return of his rejected mate
"Sonar. Active ping.
"We don't have sonar," Silas said. "It's an analog ship." "I have sonar," Leo said. "I can feel the water displacement." He looked at the porthole. "Something is out there. Something big." "Architect?" I asked, drawing my flare gun, though it would be useless inside the sub. "No," Leo said. "Biological. But... wrong." He pushed a pulse of light out through the hull a momentary flash to illuminate the dark. For a second, the abyss lit up. We gasped. Swimming alongside us, matching our speed, was a whale. But it wasn't a normal whale. It was a skeleton. A massive, sixty-foot ribcage of white bone, held together by the black, oily sludge of the infection. Its eyes were void
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