The second leg of the trip was more awkward than the first. I figured that Mack must have told Gina that I was asking too many questions, because when she ended her shift and came back to talk to me, she avoided mentioning Pinnacle or the mission at all, which was impressive, given how we were still on the mission.
Then again, we barely talked because Gina, when she was not guarding Christina, spent most of her time up front with Uncle Josh where she apparently helped him with the controls. I wanted to help as well, but Gina told me that because I didn’t have experience piloting submarines I couldn’t help and that I should just sit back and let them pilot it. She had a point, but I would have loved to help anyway, even if my only job was to monitor the screens, because that would be much
