The officer stayed awake, but the only message he received was to the effect that Easy was going to sleep and Aminador-neldo was taking over the watch. Nothing excited him, either, it seemed; the speaker remained silent after the human girl signed off.For hour after hour the bathyscaphe bumped merrily on its way. Sometimes it stopped for a moment, sometimes for minutes on end; always the journey resumed, as vagaries in the current dislodged it from whatever barred its path. Easy woke up again, and attended to the problem of breakfast. Later she prepared a rather unappetizing dinner - so she said, anyway. Aminadorneldo was polite about it, blaming the deficiencies on the synthesizers. There's not too much one can do with amino acids, fats, and dextrose, even if vitamin powders are available for seasoning. Tenebra's long night wore on; Raeker served another watch in the robot's control room, bringing Nick and Fagin to a point which he believed was fairly close to the rest of the party from the village.
