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The little sub drops through the violet sea. Its first click comes back from above. They reel it up and clear the cable. They lower it beyond the ship's own shadow. Again the echo falls from the sky. The ship shuts down its engines, then its lights. A third click rises through the listening hull. No one aboard has sent it. The captain taps a knuckle on the hull. The sky taps back, a little out of time.
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