Chapters 1-3 Summary

'Dark Life' is a story about Ty, a teenage boy living in a subsea settlement under the ocean. The settlement has been tasked with capturing the dangerous outlaws, the Seablite Gang, who prey on government supply ships. Ty also has his own problems in the form of Gemma, a Topsider girl who lives on land, who has come subsea looking for her older brother. Ty and Gemma get dangerously involved with the Seablite Gang, and eventually discover what happened to Gemma's brother. Ty is forced to reveal that he has a 'dark gift,' a special ability triggered by growing up under water, something that he had been desperate to keep secret. In the end the outlaws are not captured but promise never to harm another settler. The settlement decides to break away from Commonwealth control in order to become independent...