Chapter 19
LED lights on the floor of the waterscraper lit the way as they descended the staircase deeper into the Arctic Ocean. The stairs were made of metal, and their footsteps echoed down into the blackness of the tower. They heard the gurgling sound of the ocean rushing against the outside walls as the waterscraper sank into the black depths below, and tiny bubbles climbed the glass on their way to the surface. Outside, the water around them darkened as the tower descended. Silhouettes of fish swam near the surface, and the sun’s rays shining through the holes in the ice created gradients of light and dark that stretched past them into the depths. Ice cracked above, a sound like buildings collapsing.
X’s eyes lit up, spotlighting a narrow hallway with a floor gradually tilting downw
