Neptune Speaks

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Did anything remind you of Nigeria while you were there? I will be honest — nothing reminded me of Nigeria. The resort I stayed was very peaceful. I came out that evening, did my job and went back to my hotel. When I woke up the next morning, I came out of my hotel and enjoyed the view of the ocean and the beautiful trees.

Everything was peaceful and calm which made me relaxed. It is a nice place to think and meditate. How would you compare our entertainment industry with theirs? What other countries would you like to travel to? I want to travel to the Bahamas because I heard it is a nice place. I will also like to go to Jamaica to have a feel of the Jamaican vibe, culture and all the madness over there. What advice would you give to somebody who wants to travel? If you are thinking of travelling, firstly, use the Internet because it is your friend.

Find out about the weather where you are going to so that you will know the right things to pack. A young boy named Mako even died helping us escape. As I clench my hands into fists, Mako's sweet face appears in my memory. I'll never forget watching the life fade from his wide gray eyes. Wasp and Whitey, two of Kuron's most savage kids at Atlantia, killed him. Was his sacrifice for nothing? If I concentrate on feeling angry, maybe I won't burst into tears. None come close to producing the startling results Idaine reported in her log.

Unlike her husband Ran Kuron, she was disciplined and methodical, and hardly one to cut corners. She contacted all the scientists in the Project to announce that she had developed a strain of plankton that could absorb a hundred times more carbon dioxide than regular phytoplankton and sequester it. Unfortunately, she died before she could share the details of her research with us. Remember the notebooks Robry grabbed from that lab where you found the plankton cultures?

Some of those notebooks were Idaine's original journals. From their contents, we've determined that her very last round of c-plankton notes must have been aboard her research vessel the Storm Petrel when it sank in the Johnstone Strait five years ago. If we can find her notes, there's a good chance we can engineer c-plankton just the way she did. But we know she owned one of the first hydro-computers ever built. Ran boasted to me about buying it for her.

I sit up straighter on the bed. Dad looks down at his cluttered desk. I lean forward on the bed. The moment anyone mentions his mother, he clams up tighter than an oyster. The afternoon the Storm Petrel sank, Sevier claimed he heard Ran and Idaine having a violent argument down in their cabin.

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The next thing he knew, there was a big explosion, and the Storm Petrel started sinking rapidly. Dad clears his throat. He lay her down in the runabout that she used to do her research. Then he went back below. The first mate ran to the runabout to see if he could help her. When he speaks again, anger and sorrow tinge his voice.

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He was also fairly certain her neck was broken. Then Ran appeared with Dai slung over his shoulder and threatened Sevier with a solar pistol. Because the ship was sinking fast, Sevier ran back to the last life raft and jumped on board. Ran drove the runabout away from The Storm Petrel , and Sevier never saw him again. I rub my arms as chills skate down my back. I wonder if he knows what actually happened between his parents that day. We think he was trying to recreate her c-plankton, too, which means he doesn't have her computer.

Salvaging a wreck there will be impossible for divers, and we don't have any robotic salvage probes that could function at that depth. He looks at me, and then I understand. You knew then we might have brought back the wrong strain. I can't believe you didn't tell me. I can't believe you didn't tell us. Infiltrating Atlantia was hard on all of you, and I didn't want you to think your mission was a failure.

You freed Bria and Robry, and you brought back Idaine's notes which I believe are going to help us produce the right strain of c-plankton at last. Kids in your Neptune Project have to grow up fast. Few kids back home had it easy living under the corrupt government of the Western Collective, but at least they didn't have to give up their life on land to live in the dangerous sea. Dad looks away first. Dai's the most comfortable of any of us in deeper water. My father clears his throat again.

We'd rather he didn't know about this mission. Thanks to Robry, we've broken part of the communication code Kuron's people use. From the radio chatter we've been picking up, it's pretty clear someone is reporting to them regularly from inside Safety Harbor. It's hard to believe it's him after all he risked to save you and this colony, but it's also hard to believe that Sunny, Rad, Ocho or Shadow would betray us, either. I picture the four kids who, like Dai, chose to leave Atlantia to build new lives at Safety Harbor. Each of them hated Kuron so much, I can't believe they'd help him for any reason.

My lungs are getting dry and itchy, which means I have to return to the water soon. Honestly, I hope you don't do well on the pressure tests. You and your friends have already done enough for Safety Harbor. If I do well on the tests, I have to help salvage the Storm Petrel.

My father smiles resignedly before he hugs me goodnight and kisses my forehead. Topside, the hub consists of a dock built in the center of a sheltered cove covered with camouflage nets that hide our small fleet of surface boats and zodiac rafts. Forty feet beneath the end of that dock is a platform where we tie the underwater tows and skimmers we use on longer journeys.

My friends laugh and joke as they take their places around a powerful tow tied to the lower platform. Clearly they aren't too concerned about the tests. When we aren't assigned to chores, classes, or patrols, we often have to complete weird assessments by Neptune scientists who want to study how well we're adapting to the sea. Only I know how important the results of these particular tests will be. I grab hold of a loop on the big group tow we nicknamed, "the Bus.

She powers up the Bus and soon we're being towed through the water almost as fast as the dolphins can pull us. Coming up on the bubble wall,: Janni announces, and a moment later, all I can see is silvery bubbles. Soon after we cross the wall, Mariah and her family swoop and swirl around us. We don't need your help today,: I say to her,: I don't want to dive down to Idaine's sunken vessel either, but if I can handle the pressure down there well, I'll volunteer.: I've already explained climate change to Mariah, Sokya and Densil and told them how the c-plankton could help our warming oceans.

A chicken part of me hopes that I'll flunk these pressure tests, but I don't send that thought to Mariah. An hour later we reach the Carly Sue , a battered old fishing trawler the helper staff has anchored over the test site. They picked a sheltered spot behind a nameless island where the water is very deep and there's little boat traffic. We surface and gather around the back of the Carly Sue to hear Doc Iharu's briefing. We still don't know why most people black out or lose their ability to think when experiencing greater pressure.

We just know they do. But one or two people out of a hundred seem to be able to function fine in high-pressure environments. Rohan is going to pass out sensors that will monitor your heartrate and blood pressure. If we see signs that you're in distress, we'll have you ascend to shallower water immediately. For every thirty-three feet you descend, your body will experience another atmosphere of pressure. So at two hundred feet, your body will experience roughly six times the pressure you're experiencing now.

By the end of these tests three days from now, we hope a few of you will be descending to a thousand feet below the surface where the pressure is thirty times what it is here. You're more like fish in this respect than marine mammals. I don't dare look at Lena. She really doesn't like to be reminded that we all have some fish genes in our DNA. If they didn't, the greater pressure outside their bodies on the less dense air inside their lungs would crush them. I start chewing my lip. Going deep is sounding scarier by the moment, although Dai has taken me down into the Twilight Zone several times.

I wish he were with us today. He actually seems to relish the dark. For the first phase of our testing, Doc Iharu has us swim down the boat's anchor chain to one hundred feet. When no one else seems to want to go first, I start kicking my way downward. Because there's a fairly strong surface current here, I save my energy by holding on to the chain, and the others follow my example. We've descended twenty feet when a school of shrimp drifts by, and the water fills with their noisy crackling.

Tobin shakes his head and smiles at me. Before I lived in the sea, I had no idea shrimp could be so loud Hey, Janni, maybe you can net some,: Thom calls out to Janni who is waiting with the Bus. I'd rather eat 'em than listen to the noisy little suckers My friends stop chattering when we start losing light at fifty feet, and by eighty, we're about to leave the Sunlit Zone. Below us the water is totally black, and it's way too easy to imagine I see creatures down there that would like to eat us. Hey, look, it's the cavalry.: Ree grins, and seconds later, all the members of Mariah's pod dip and dart around us.

Everyone brightens as we greet our dolphin partners. Especially at times like this, I envy the dolphins' ability to echolocate. We descend to a yellow flag on the chain that marks one hundred feet. The water here is so dim that, even with my genetically engineered eyesight, I can see only about fifteen feet in any direction. The dolphins return to the surface while we answer a series of questions on our wrist computers. Fortunately, there's much less current at this depth, so we can hover instead of wrapping our arms around the chain while we key in our answers. Ree adds, looking somber.

While captives in Kuron's undersea base, we spent much of our days there being tested and studying on computers. They're just trying to establish a baseline for our cognitive functions before we go deeper,: Kalli says, her mental tone cheerful as always. A true scientist, Kalli is actually excited about these tests. My cognitive functions aren't so great to begin with,: I like to do things, not think about them After we've all finished our mental tests, we perform a series of coordination tests with our dive partner recording the results. We have to do everything from executing a somersault to touching our noses with our index fingers.

That is one of the worst somersaults I've ever seen,: I didn't have a lot of time to work on my gymnastics when I was little. I was trying too hard to keep up with Kyel's dad and his guerilla fighters up in the mountains,: I often think of Kyel, a boy who died during our long journey to Safety Harbor from the Southern Sector. He was Thom's best friend, and I wish he'd had a chance to be a part of our new community.

Thanks to his military experience, Thom has risen rapidly to the rank of captain in the Sea Rangers, and Kyel would have done the same. Load your spear guns now, and do not turn on your dive lights unless absolutely necessary,: Janni orders us from above. She didn't need to add that last command. We all know that down in the vast, black depths of the sea, lights can attract unwanted visitors such as large sharks and squid. Carefully we load our spear guns and sling them across our backs.

Thom says trying to make us laugh, but I hear the tension in his tone. This time Tobin insists on going first, and after our talk at dinner a few nights ago about my taking too many risks, I let him. The water turns darker and colder as we work our way down the anchor line. By the time we reach a luminescent flag at two hundred feet, the sea is inky black all around us and the glowing screens of our dive computers seem incredibly bright.

I ask even though we're not on patrol and I'm no one's leader today.

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Hold your wrist computers up by your faces while you check on your partner The good news is, we can be back up there in just a minute or two,: The dark doesn't seem to be bothering her much. We don't have to stop and decompress like divers do since we aren't breathing air Tobin's my dive partner today. His face looks pale in the gray wash of light from his wrist computer. This brings back a few memories,: He's probably remembering the awful time back at Atlantia when Wasp shut us in a tiny, dark sensory-deprivation room, and we had to use the light from our dive computers to see each other.

Although I used to be terribly claustrophobic, I can handle being in dark, close places now because Tobin helped me fight my phobia. At least we don't have to stay down here for the next two days.: But I can't help wondering how long the kids who are picked for the salvage mission will have to stay down in the Storm Petrel. When we've all checked our buddies, we start on our next set of computer tests.

I'm on the fifth question when Thom stiffens beside me and grabs his spear gun. M y heart is in my throat as I reach for my spear gun. The shark is only ten feet away and getting closer by the second. After a moment's hesitation, I switch on my dive light. I need to see the shark clearly.

Stay as still as you can,: I tell the others,: I think it's just curious about us.: I hope I'm right. I shine my light on the massive shark. The beam plays across the creature's expressionless black eyes and the unusual seven gills in its neck. The shark's large, undercut jaw is studded with dozens of sharp teeth.

The sevengill turns and glides past our group. We hold our spear guns at the ready, but we don't shoot as it swims a slow, silent circle around us. Are you all right, Penn?: I ask him on a private send. Right after their Neptune transformation, Penn and his girlfriend were attacked by sharks. And I know I'm not going to take my eyes off that shark to key a reply to Doc Iharu. After circling us a second time, the sevengill disappears into the dark. I keep scanning the black water all around us. Suddenly, a gray shape barrels down at me from out of the midnight gloom.

I jerk my spear gun higher. The shark must have decided she was hungry after all. I shout to the others. Then I yell at my dolphin friend,: You just scared me more than the shark did He sidles up to me, looking as apologetic as a dolphin can look. I sensed you were frightened. I came to see if you needed help I say, lowering my spear gun, my pulse still racing,: I almost shot you.: I reach out and give him a quick rub to show I'm sorry for yelling at him.

I must return to the surface now Someone had better contact the doc. He's getting a little worked up topside,: Doc Iharu is shouting at us all now through our ear pieces. We're fine down here,: I tell Janni while Kalli keys a similar message to the testing staff. A big sevengill just came by to check us out, and then Densil decided to pay us a surprise visit That shark looked like she was from another time,: Tobin says, looking in the direction the sevengill vanished.

In a sense, she is,: Sharks have been on this planet for over a hundred million years We take turns keeping watch with a dive torch set on dim while the rest start our tests. As I work my way through the questions, I don't think the pressure is affecting my thinking, but I can't be sure. The shark doesn't return, and when we finish our mental and coordination tests, Doc Iharu lets us come back to the surface.

That night at dinner we find out that Lena and Penn have been excused from further testing, but Thom, Ree, Tobin and Kalli and I all have to report to the transport hub at 6 AM. They probably flunked me because my heartrate went nuts when that shark came by,: It's so creepy in the Twilight Zone, I'm totally fine with not going down there again. I like working in the kitchen and teaching my jewelry classes better anyway.: Lena has started a seashell jewelry craze and most of the kids at Safety Harbor now wear shell necklaces or bracelets. Come on, Lena, aren't you sorry you won't have a chance to run into some hagfish?: I honestly don't want to meet a fish that burrows into dead whales and eats them from the inside out, thank you very much I ran into several schools of them when I was poking around in some deep spots closer to Atlantia.

They left me alone, but they would have torn me apart if I'd been bleeding,: My father is crazy not to use Dai on this salvage mission. He knows so much more about the deep than the rest of us do. The moment I realize what I'm thinking, I tighten my mental shields, but not before Dai sends me a puzzled glance. A group of kids start yelling next to us, and I'm relieved when Dai looks away from me to frown at them. The psychic noise in the mess hall is so intense right now because everyone's excited about Ocho and Shadow's concert tonight. It's taken them months to recreate the omniphone and water organ they built at Atlantia.

With Penn and Rad's help, they've finally completed both instruments. Her eyes look very dark in her pale face. Tonight she wears her beautiful long, black hair loose, and it floats about her head like a living cloud. Kuron mixed octopus genes with Shadow's DNA, which makes her incredibly strong, and she can change the color of her skin at will.

When she wants to hide, she can blend in perfectly with any background. She and Sunny spend most of their working hours teaching and supervising the younger kids in the colony, and those kids love when Shadow agrees to play hide-and-seek with them. Everyone is going to love your music,: I promise her and Ocho.

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His round, good-natured face also looks tense. There's no reason to be nervous,: Sunny says to them both. You used to give us amazing concerts all the time Yeah, but there's a big difference between playing for ten people and playing for three hundred,: Ocho says with a grimace. With his five arms and two legs, his octopus genes are more obvious than Shadow's. He used to have six arms, but one had to be amputated after he helped us fight our way out of Atlantia. Tonight, the color of his skin keeps shifting from pink to pale gray, a sure sign he's anxious.

When we arrive at our new official concert cave, I'm glad that so many of the helper staff, including my father, are already here. Dad waves at me and I smile because he looks just as excited as the kids about this concert. Shadow's keyboard sits on a platform raised above yards and yards of black tubing that funnels water and air through organ pipes. Ocho's new omniphone is even more spectacular than the one he had at Atlantia. On four long, metal twisting arms, he's fastened a variety of objects including hubcaps, metal sheets and spoons.

When Shadow and Ocho nod to show they are ready, my father swims out in front of them to address their audience. Shadow and Ocho have worked hard to build their instruments and to create the music you are about to hear. We are proud of each and every member of the Neptune Project because, in a very real sense, you are all pioneers. Shadow and Ocho are talented pioneers in the field of sea music. Creating your own music is another positive step toward building a real home for yourselves beneath the waves. And since I know you don't want to listen to me talk anymore, here they are!

A psychic hush falls over the crowd as my father swims off to the side. Shadow raises her head and says clearly,: