Right in front of Jay, one wheel of stars flattens into the shape of a lash. A second wheel does the same. A third, a fourth, every star cluster now an interstellar highway. This is no hallucination, no underwater UFO. These are the bioluminescent lights of Architeuthis. The giant squid. The gruff suck of his regulator reminds Jay that he’s alive. He exhales. Bubbles bounce off his face as if the squid data in his brain is pouring out. Millions of giant squid live in the ocean deep. At least that’s the theory.
