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Courtney blinked, pulling her eyes and her mind back to her office at La Casa. It had been awhile since she thought of the night that changed her life. Losing Kate was the beginning of her search for what she could do to find that solace under the waves. She grew up fast when she lost her mother. Her innocence left when Kate died.
She took a sip of the tea that had gone cold. Standing, she replaced her journal on the stack of papers and set her cup down next to her uneaten toast.
If Professor Perkins, Edward, she reminded herself, was to go along with her today on the dive, then she wouldn’t need Miguel. She checked her duffel to make sure she had what she’d need. Microphone, recorder, spiral notebook and pens, and an array of pool toys that her pod enjoyed playing with. With a secon
