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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: What if, instead of looking up for our exploration into space, we had looked down...

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: ReVisions, ed. Julie Czerneda, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2005

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Words: 5600
Reading time: 16-22 min.
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"Nereus Shuttle Four to Gateway Station, you have control."

Robinachec nodded confirmation as though the pilot could see him. "Roger that. Bringing you in." Palming the flat-topped lever, I watched as he moved it gently back towards him, pulling the bullet-shaped transport into the shed, an external framework of metal beams just large enough to hold two minisubs, or one shuttle.

Robinechec has nightmares sometimes about something going wrong here. Forget the fact that it's the safest maneuver in the entire procedure; he still talks about waking up in a cold sweat because he screwed up.

You'd never know it to watch him.

When you're six hundred feet down--well below the twilight zone, in the bathypelagic or 'deep water' zone--your perception shifts. Nothing as arcane as the chemical balance in your brain changing, although there's some of that, too. No, it's more the realization, slow sinking into your brain, that there's not damn-all between you and dying but a duraplas shield and some canned oxy-blend.