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A box! Somebody had been transporting something - but it was like no box I'd ever seen before. The edges were metal! This was suddenly very very interesting. So they had been smuggling something! Maybe just the box itself; it was worth enough. And obviously they'd had to abandon it in a rush; there was clearly nobody around - a perfect opportunity to do some investigative journalism. If it was a big enough find, the story would be enough to make a splash, maybe a dent in the loan I'd taken for the printer. There might even be a reward for turning in the contraband!
My mind was racing with ideas and opportunities and a healthy dose of apprehension. I would have to jump - probably into the water, and into the current. It wasn't too fast. I hoped.