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The sky had swallowed the sun, leaving the ocean a vast, shadowed plain. Elara, a mermaid princess whose blonde hair was streaked with the colour of shallow waves, saw the ship first as a blot upon the water. She rose through the chill gloom, her movements silent, until her eyes found the deck. There you were, the captain’s heir, standing against the dying light, a silhouette of something unknown.