The Diver had gone deeper into the Drift than anyone else, but even he barely knew what secrets it contained until he met the nurse.
It happened when he went into the hospital to hide from the ghosts. It was at the start of his dive, when he’d only been in the Drift for a few minutes. He’d been walking down the sidewalk, making his way around the abandoned cars and not really paying close attention to the green haze of the Drift that shrouded the remains of the city. The ghosts weren’t usually found in the shallow parts of the Drift, so he was relaxed and thinking about Lucas. That was when the white forms grew out of the Drift at the end of the block and the Diver stepped over to a school bus for cover.
Nobody knew who the ghosts were, although almost every diver had a theory. Governmen
