Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)

by Mira Grant

None of them would ever be seen again, of course, just as none of the scientists, interns, Imagine camera crews, or ship’s personnel would be seen again—not alive. But in that moment, as the Atargatis sailed, none of this was known. They saw a great adventure. They saw a glorious and entertaining hoax. They saw profit, ratings, everything but the disaster that awaited them. The Atargatis sailed blithely on, out of the harbor, and into history.

The official record says that all hands were lost at sea. We believe that something far worse occurred. We believe that they were found.

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in the sea? We turned monsters into myths, and then we turned them into fairy tales. We dismissed the bad parts. We were too interested in…in…in pretty women in the sea.”

Only Alexandra kept her face covered the entire time. Only Alexandra was fortunate enough to die without being forced to see.