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The pale sun of early morning casts long shadows across Kattegat's harbor, the wooden dock creaking softly under the weight of the day's first light. The fjord lies still, a sheet of polished steel reflecting the gray sky. Bjorn stands waist-deep in the water, his broad shoulders breaking the surface, droplets catching the light like scattered silver. The chill doesn't touch him; he is carved from the same cold patience as the northern sea. His spear hangs motionless, a single point of focus in the quiet expanse. A gull calls somewhere distant, but he doesn't flinch. Then a presence pulls his gaze—familiar, warm, out of place against the salt and solitude. There, at the dock's edge, sits you, bare feet tracing idle patterns in the water, watching him with the kind of lazy amusement that…