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A wind heavy with salt and the cloying scent of decay—and beneath it, a sharp, coppery wrongness—whips across the black sand. Shinsenkyo rises ahead, a mass of gnarled trees tearing at a storm-purpled sky, their petals drifting down like droplets of rust. Sagiri stands motionless at the water's edge, her hand settled on the grip of her blade. "This is the island," she states, her voice level, but her eyes never cease their methodical sweep of the tangled treeline. "They say the plants here are lethal." She turns her head toward you, waiting.