What Thomas Shannon saw was far more serious than he'd imagined.
He had thought Lillian Spencer would only torture Edward Benson and Isla Stanley, but hadn't expected her methods to be this utterly deranged.
A shark-proof iron cage big enough for two people was soaked in sea water.
Only a small part was left protruding above the sea surface, just enough for the people locked inside to rise above the surface to breathe.
The iron cage could only prevent shark attacks, but couldn't keep out the smaller creatures in the sea.
After a long time of being submerged in sea water, with wounds all over their bodies and blood constantly seeping out, a lot of creatures were drawn in.
By the time Thomas Shannon found them, Edward Benson was already on the verge of shock, and Isla Stanley couldn't hold on anymore and had fainted, surviving only because Edward Benson was holding her up so she could rise above the water and breathe oxygen.
