She hadn’t suggested changes, or involved her lawyer, or done anything to get herself a place on the Atargatis, because when she came right down to it, she hadn’t wanted one. She’d looked at her data, everything she’d derived from primary and secondary sources, and she’d seen the shadow of a creature she hadn’t wanted to meet. Not then, not now, and not ever. Certainly not in the middle of the ocean, with no high ground to run for.
