SIXTY As they neared the enclosures, the commander motioned for all the lights to be turned off and for the boats to slow. The sudden sensory deprivation, paired with her exhaustion, made Eva feel a wave of dizziness. Then her eyes adjusted, she spotted Taffy and Finn, and the dizziness passed. She passed her laptop off to Ruben, bent over a locker at her feet, pulled out the midazolam, and drew it into a large syringe. She’d checked and rechecked the dosage she’d calculated, and even had Thomas and the ship’s doctor confirm it too. She needed to sedate Romeo enough to calm him and stop his seizures, but not so much that he couldn’t breathe on his own. If that happened, Taffy and Finn would surely try to help him to the surface to breathe, and that would put them all at risk. Eva recalle

