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The Conduit: Chapter III
As Max Shepherd prepares to receive his first prisoner, new problems arise.
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Max finished his call to report on the mysterious yacht found adrift. The Starry Night was found on anything but, and he was concerned by the timing of its appearance. The security team was going over it with a microscope, looking for any reason to cast it back to the sea before the arrival of their first detainee. So far, they hadn’t found anything more than the craft being mysteriously empty.
There was a knock at the door as he transmitted his report to number one. Max closed the program and summoned his visitor to enter. It was the station doctor, Susan Reimers. From the quizzical look on her face, she was about to ask him for something.
“I hear you found a ghost ship,” she announced.
Max looked at her, putting his hands on the armrests of his chair as he leaned back. It wouldn’t stay a big secret that they’d towed in the Starry Night. But with it anchored a mile from the Oceanic it should have taken longer for the news to get around. Max questioned, ‘How does she know?’
“So, is it true?”
Susan seemed giddy with excitement. The idea of a ghost ship had her enthusiasm revved all…