“The sea and I,” he said, “have agreed to be neighbors.”

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It lived in the absolute deepest part of the Churn, in a cave made of fused shipwrecks and whale bones. It was not a true eel, but something older—a serpent of black muscle and lamprey mouth, ringed with glowing eyes like a necklace of sick stars. It had no predators. It had no fear. And for fifty years, it had guarded the Heartshell, a legendary mollusk said to contain a pearl the size of a man’s fist, worth more than all the moon-tears in history.

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