Chapter 7

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Steaks and grilled seafood. The aroma wafted across the harbor to those who’d disembarked the ferry and beckoned them like Sirens from The Odyssey. The restaurant anchored the east end of the marina, a low building with a metal roof and an expansive deck cantilevered over the harbor’s edge. Steaks and grilled seafood. The OdysseyRoderick took a deep breath, looked down at Austin and spoke to the top of her head, “Are you hungry?” She looked up. “I wasn’t until right now,” she answered. “But something smells heavenly.” “Yes, doesn’t it though?” Roderick agreed. The pills had taken the edge off the pain in his leg. That relief, paired with the island and Austin Daley, temporarily muted the voice telling him, look out your window… look out your window…“I’m not sure how much food there’s

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