Crouching beside it
The chain stretched from the water’s edge far into the shallow surf before disappearing beneath waves that rolled with steady force. Luke crouched close to it, his heavy boots sinking into the wet sand scattered with dark pebbles. In all his years working the seas as a shipping captain, he had never come across something like this before. Yet even with the strangeness of the sight, things were about to become far more unusual still.
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