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Salvage Rights
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Mara holds the diver where he is and lets him talk. He says Vares used to work the same routes as the Meridian Cross, and they know exactly why she went down. "You won't believe what's in that hold," he says, "and you won't believe who put it there." He offers to go in with her, lights linked, so neither of them can pull a knife in the dark.
Mara agrees, and they descend together with their lights linked. In the hold he shows her a panel her husband welded shut himself, full of falsified manifests. Topside, he stands with her before the coast authority and backs her word. The two crews that fought over the wreck end up as the ones who finally expose it. Mara walks away with the truth and, for once, someone on her side.
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