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It was not a possibility he was quite ready to accept. The three men stationed on the islet rising from the waves in front of him were not just his colleagues, they were his friends. As the ship approached the east side of the island, an ominous atmosphere descended over the scene. The Flannan Isles had a haunting loneliness to them at the best of times, somewhat punctuated by the fierceness of the seas surrounding them, but on this morning, as the Hesperus came about, there was something else in the air, something not quite right.

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It was not a possibility he was quite ready to accept. The three men stationed on the islet rising from the waves in front of him were not just his colleagues, they were his friends. As the ship approached the east side of the island, an ominous atmosphere descended over the scene. The Flannan Isles had a haunting loneliness to them at the best of times, somewhat punctuated by the fierceness of the seas surrounding them, but on this morning, as the Hesperus came about, there was something else in the air, something not quite right.