Descend (The Abyssal Depths)

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From: Spiralling Deeper with the (Diving-Bell)


Fathoms yawn.

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Diving deeper

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41[…] you couldn't adjust its descent anymore if you wanted. Its fins are aligned so precisely with the […] currents that, with the slightest deviation, opposing rip-tides would shred the zubmersible […] One of the gauges […] explodes. Broken glass […] Your own blood […]
32Time warps in these lightless trenches. […] Weeks are years, and years are fleeting moments. You mark their passage […] by counting the bolts that pop loose […]

The […] Naturalist is quick with emergency caulk […]

More caulk. More fumes. More decades in the dark.
23Living gills pump fresh air into the diving-bell. […]

Until the metal begins to buckle.

[…] Nineteen, twenty – more bolts popping; more noxious caulk […] What is that caulk?

"F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Postal Adhesive […] Illegal without a licence, obviously."
14You haven't eaten in ages. The […] Naturalist is nothing but skin and bone. […] No sign from the compass that you're any closer. The needles still hum with the same frequency. They still point directly downward. The crack in the porthole continues to grow […]
5The Unterzee is an abyssal fist around your diving-bell. It squeezes, and metal crumples. […] All the surviving gauges burst.

By now, the porthole is fully fractured. Only some impossible tension still holds the shards together […]

0[…] You can't breathe without inhaling fumes. (Seventy-two. Seventy-three.) […] one valiant fin still flutters to keep the diving-bell on course […]

"It occurs to me," […] "that we might not make it."

His expression is ghastly. […]

[…] the last light-bulb goes pop.

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