The Lighthouse Keeper — Chapter 1, Page 9
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The beam catches. It turns. Elias: Steady... Elias: God, it is bright. Below, the water answers. Elias: Was that... movement down there?
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A lighthouse beam sweeps across the dark ocean, and inside the lighthouse, a man with salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a pea coat, shields his eyes from the bright light before looking down to see several ghostly figures swimming underwater.
About this chapter
Elias begins his first day as the keeper of the lighthouse, discovering the strange properties of the light and the isolation of the island. He finds an old journal that hints at a mystery regarding the previous keeper.