Elias lifted his hand, signaling to turn back. But Edwin hesitated, his gaze fixed on the darkness below, as if something down there was calling to him. Elias’s light swept the seabed. The chain dipped toward a jagged ridge that dropped away into open water.
He felt his chest tighten. They were beyond the safe shelf now, where the sea floor plunged for hundreds of meters. He hesitated. Sharks hunted these depths, and currents could turn deadly in seconds. But the chain didn’t stop, it flowed right over the cliff’s edge, vanishing into the black void below.