Chapter 2
It took about half an hour. You’d think the dive would be boring, but Delphine was enthralled. There was everything down there, floating seaweed, schools of fish making iridescent patterns from the sun above. The sun himself pierced the depths with his rays but eventually even he, lost. Light blue colours became darker and darker, but there were still things to see. At one point she yelped cause a gigantic lump of… something swam right next to her.
Must have been a whale. She felt the backwash push her around. She only knew which way was up from the instruments glowing on her field of view.
The captain was outside, making sure the umbilical unwound properly from a huge reel.
Quite a bit after that, she saw the first cliffs, peeking from the abyss below. Jimmy had very sensiti
