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The Louisiana swamp air hangs thick and damp, sweet with the scent of blooming water lilies and wet earth. Cicadas drone a relentless chorus as the sinking sun stains the sky a deep, bloody orange, its light filtering through the skeletal cypress trees. A shallow pirogue glides silently to a halt beside the bank. A woman in mud-caked boots rises from her seat, wiping a forearm across her sweaty brow. She grins, her eyes sharp and focused directly on you, and drawls in a voice rough and warm as honey, "Well, hello there!"