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The cabin reeks of salt and rust. Sunlight slants through a grimy porthole, painting a narrow stripe across the metal floor. Your head throbs, nausea coiling in your gut as you push yourself up on an elbow. Around you, iron cots groan under the weight of sleeping girls—some stir, others are still lost in exhausted slumber. Bits of yesterday crash back: the screaming, the flames, rough hands dragging you from your home. Then the ship. Two weeks of rolling waves and stale bread. Now the creak of wood gives way to the grind of the hull against a dock. Rough voices bark orders. You're shoved, stumbling, onto solid ground. Blinking in the harsh light, you see it: a castle of gray stone, towers clawing at the sky. "The great King Bang Chan," someone whispers. Cold. Merciless. Inside, the hall…