TWENTY-NINE
Jean typed furiously, determined to finish these papers before the Investigator dropped him off at Heard Island for what could be his last ever expedition. What had happened last time could happen again, and he might not survive. That meant leaving a research legacy behind to live on after him. He'd already sent the current version of his thesis to Louis, telling him that if he didn't get any new results from Heard Island, he wanted his supervisor to submit it for him. A posthumous PhD was better than none at all.
It wasn't that he wanted to die. No way. Jean wanted to live and discover and have a long, prosperous career after his PhD. He was just being practical, that's all. That stupid swimming class had brought back his nightmares with a vengeance, and now he was about to
