“Damned if they ain’t pretty busy up there. I read a pair of Alfas, a Charlie, a Tango, and a few surface ships. What gives, sir?” “There’s a Delta there, too, but she just surfaced and killed her engines.” “Surfaced, Skipper?” “Yep. They were lashing her pretty hard with active sonar, then a ’can queried her on a gertrude.” “Uh-huh. Acquisition game, and the sub lost.” “Maybe.” Quentin rubbed his eyes. The man looked tired. He was pushing himself too hard, and his stamina wasn’t half what it should have been. “But the Alfas are still pinging, and now they’re headed west, as you heard.” “Oh.”
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