eyeball. If my initial cut on its belly shed a little blood, this wound shed considerably more. The gushing red liquid pulsed out into the water. Everything slowed down for a moment. My brain forced me to noticed something. Something familiar.

In the centre of the bloody mist… A tiny black orb. With a little red dot in the middle.

It floated out of the shark’s eye socket within the spray of blood. Just like the Scavenger on Shamus Five...

The orb sank out of sight as I tried to address the infinite questions in my head. But a violent jolt from the shark snapped me out of it. This time I fell forward too far and lost my grip on the dorsal fin. I landed near the front of the shark’s mouth. All that kept me from falling completely...

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