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parties.”
    She stopped halfway and hunched over, and then proceeded to empty the contents of her stomach in such a violent way that her head jerked and slammed into the ground, knocking her out cold.
    “You get to carry her,” Shane said as he walked past his brother and pointed at Lucy. “Maybe your girlfriend will help.”
    “Yeah, we got it,” Max said.
    Darby didn’t argue as she grabbed Lucy’s legs while Max grabbed Lucy’s shoulders. They followed Shane to a different trail than the one Ballantine and Thorne had come up. In seconds, they were lost from sight as they made their way down to the beach and the Zodiac raft waiting to take them back out to the Beowulf III.
    “Again, my apologies,” Ballantine said to Linny. “I hope they have a speedy recovery. At least know that it looks like she took it easy on them.”
    Linny just stood there as Ballantine gave her a wide smile and followed the brothers and Darby down to the beach.
    “What?” Linny snapped as Thorne stood there watching her.
    “I know you used to be a SEAL,” Thorne said. “Shane told me all about that asshole. You seem tough and obviously know how to be in charge.”
    “Yeah, so?” she grumbled.
    “Normally those qualities are good things,” Thorne said, “but when we leave you need to forget about being tough and in charge. If anyone comes here looking for us, you hide. Just hide, and if you can’t hide, then you tell them everything you know. Do not try to lie for Shane, got it? You tell them everything and hopefully they’ll believe you and go away.”
    “I don’t fucking know anything,” Linny said. “Shane didn’t tell me shit.”
    “I think he probably did,” Thorne said as he pointed at her skirt. “That’s on backwards, by the way.”
    She looked down and closed her eyes. “Mother fucker.”
    “Remember what I said,” Thorne said one last time as he walked away. “Hide or be honest. Don’t fight.”
    Linny looked up as Thorne stepped onto the trail. “Who’s coming after you?”
    “Bad people,” Thorne said. “Very bad people. It’s probably best you take that cash Ballantine gave you and get your people out of here. That’ll be safer than hiding or being honest. Best just not to be around.”
    Thorne gave her a sad smile then was lost from sight as he descended the trail.
    Linny looked down at the roll of 100s in her hand.
    “Yeah, I think getting the fuck out of here is better,” she said. Then she looked at the huge men that lay on the ground. “Great. How the fuck am I supposed to get you assholes to the fucking hospital?”
     
    ***
     
    Boatswain Trevor “Popeye” De Bruhl cut the motor to the lift and shook his head as he looked at Lucy lying in the bottom of the Zodiac.
    “What the hell happened to her?” Popeye asked as he waved his hand in front of his nose. Short, thin, bald, with massive forearms that were covered in tattoos. De Bruhl even had a one eyed squint like the cartoon Popeye. The main difference between the man and the cartoon character was that the flesh and blood Popeye was missing his right leg and in its place was a segmented, titanium prosthetic with a splayed piece of heavy duty rubber at the bottom. “She got food poisoning or something?”
    “Something like that,” Max said as he and Darby lifted Lucy out of the Zodiac while Popeye kept it steady. “Where’s Gun? He’s going to need to pump her stomach and put some fluids in her. Pretty sure she has alcohol poisoning.”
    “Lightweight,” Popeye said.
    “Can you have Captain Lake draw anchor and ready the ship?” Ballantine asked Popeye as he stepped onto the deck. “We will need to leave these waters ASAP.”
    “Sure thing, bossman,” Popeye said. “You gonna need to call a meeting? That’s your gonna need to call a meeting voice.”
    “Do I have a gonna need to call a meeting voice?” Ballantine asked.
    “Yeah, you do,” Shane said as he stepped around Ballantine and headed up to the observation