Chapter 25: Enforcement on the Water

The enforcement vessel came out of the northeast, running without signal lights.

Karev saw it at four hundred meters — a dark shape against darker water, sitting low and moving fast on a vector that would intersect their course in under six minutes. He had been standing at the bow with his hands on the rail and his eyes on the middle distance, not thinking about anything in particular, which was the state he'd found himself in more frequently over the past two days. A kind of deliberate emptiness. The mind preparing itself for something it hadn't yet been told.

He watched the shape resolve through the gray morning chop and did not say anything for the first three minutes.