Whatever is on the other side of the Breach, it is a stranger place than we can imagine. They are built on a template of silicon, not carbon. Like a dinosaur, kind of, only an order of magnitude larger than any dinosaur that ever lived.ĭo not confuse them with any terrestrial life forms, Raleigh remembered some egghead saying in a briefing. Active sonar outlined the rest of its body under the water, revealing it to be a biped with a powerful tail. Its head was a blade, with one edge narrowing from its upper jaw to a point and the other defining the top of its skull. Four arms ended in webbed claws, each big enough to crush Saltchuck like a beer can. Knifehead rose from the ocean off Saltchuck’s port side, standing a hundred feet and more out of the water. “Good thing we can’t hear Pentecost right about now,” Yancy said. On Gipsy Danger’s primary heads-up, Raleigh and Yancy saw Saltchuck, and closing swiftly, inexorably, on it they saw, the size of a landmass, the kaiju bogey. A moment later, in a voice grown tight with awe and fear, he said, “One.” Raleigh could almost hear him thinking: There’s no island on the chart there. “What about that island?” the captain asked. “We won’t even make it past the shallows,” the first mate was saying.
The captain and his first mate, it sounded like, worried about the storm and which way they could run the fastest to shelter.
SEVEN MILES OFF ANCHORAGE, GIPSY DANGER’S scanners picked up the conversation on the bridge of the fishing vessel identified as Saltchuck.
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