“The current is not a monster. It is a mirror. And it shows us what we truly lack.”
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Captain Thorne braced against the obsidian wheel as the Delirium groaned through the phosphorescent strait. Three weeks at sea. Three weeks since the crew had begun whispering about the taste of the water—sweet, then metallic, then something else. Something that curled into the lungs like a lover’s promise.
Tonight, the sea was not angry. It was… hungry.