just emerged from, along with the rest of Class 331B, was cool but not too cold. Possibly salty, but my senses were far too overwhelmed to know for sure. I was already drying quickly though. The astounding heat wrapped around me like a suffocating blanket, rapidly sucking the moisture from my dark t-shirt. It appeared the sun’s effects were amplified here. 

The sun…

It hovered above the horizon stoically, which was just endless ocean as far as the eye could see. But it was currently eclipsed by the falling fragments of what used to be our ship.
 
             Shamus Five, like all of the Shamus ships, was named after its famed designer, Dr Philemon Shamus. He was hailed as a genius and a saviour after...

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