Elias’s breath caught in his throat. He grabbed the binoculars and handed them to the man next to him. “There’s someone on board!” he shouted.
The man adjusted the focus and shook his head. “Nothing there,” he muttered. Elias snatched them back, but the figure was gone. Only empty containers remained. He knew what he’d seen.
As sirens began wailing, the police arrived, blocking the docks. Officers brushed off Elias’s claims that someone was on the ship, insisting that what he had seen was just shadows.
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Determined to help, Elias slipped away from the crowd. The police weren’t going to act quickly enough. He grabbed his skiff from where it was hidden further down the coast and set out into the growing storm.