Indian OceanGuy heard a clock chining somewhere in the distance as he ran stealthily along the myriad of corridors trying to find Lorna and Soraya. He could hear shouts and knew he only had minutes to spare. He’d made it to the top deck without interception, as he had hoped, at nearly three o’clock in the morning the place was deserted. As yet there had been no discernible change to the motion of the ship but that didn’t surprise him, the compound he had put into the filters would take a while to be absorbed into the diesel flow and the electric motors would run without generator support for some time, he wasn’t sure what the substance actually was but he knew that it would eventually have the effect he wanted.
They had agreed to meet at the lifeboat station at the ship’s stern; he slid a
