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Deker floated on the red sea long after he began hearing the bell. And he knew that the key threshold which Brenn had left open for activation had been stimulated. Sometime later, he was fully conscious.
He stretched his body, felt the strong new pumping of blood that had been flowing with such infinite slowness. Flooding oxygen lifted him to his elbows with a dizzy exuberance. He pressed a stud, and the cowling above the capsule slid back noiselessly. Deker climbed out onto the vault floor.