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THE ALERT BUTTON DANGLED from Wilder’s neck as she leaned through the open maintenance hatch, clunking against a water pipe. She shone a flashlight around the interior. No drips were visible at the pipe joints and the areas beneath them were dry. Ever since the flood, she’d carried out regular visual inspections of the plumbing that supplied the growing beds, refusing to trust the sensors again. Everything seemed in order.
As she leaned back, the button caught between two pipes and tugged at her neck.
Softly cursing, she put down the flashlight to free it.
It was then they grabbed her.
Hands seized her arms, waist, and legs, lifting her bodily off the deck and dragging her backward. But the alert button remained at an angle, stuck between the pipes. She was trapped by the l
