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By the next morning, Paige still hadn't been any more forthcoming. "Get in, girls. Leave your gear on the jetty – Luke will come back for that next trip!" Paige cried, gesturing at the jet boat as if it was a luxury yacht and not one of the pearl farm's battered dive boats.
Penny and the other girls trooped aboard. Well, all of them except Lorelei, who stood on the jetty, squawking about how she was afraid of boats.
Stay on land all alone then, Penny thought but didn't say.
"Nothing to be afraid of. There won't be any whirlpools in the Sound for hours, if you go now," Jay remarked, scooping Lorelei up.
She squealed in delight, but her triumph was short-lived as Jay took three steps, then set her down on the side of the boat.
"My shoe!" she screeched.
Penny peered over
