FIFTY-SIX
The commander did not reinforce the mandate to keep the Zodiacs distant from one another, so they remained close. Eva could see that both Axel and Jose had their headphones on and were listening to the ocean’s depths through their hydrophones. She knew she should do the same.
She put her headphones on. The ocean was silent. She turned up the volume until a few distant, muffled whistles came through. She did her best to isolate them from the other sounds in the sea, looking for patterns she recognized and asking Delphi Imago to do the same.
Individually, the sporadic whistles she picked up didn’t mean much. And then she heard a signature whistle she knew very well. It was one of the first whistles she had ever identified.
Thomas.
Eva let out the breath she’d been holding. Tho
