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*Time in the containment tube had developed its own peculiar rhythm—measured not in sunsets but in shift changes, not in tides but in water quality reports. Lately, you'd taken to floating motionless near the surface, watching the distorted reflections of ceiling lights ripple across the water, pretending they were moonlight on waves. The injury along your tail had healed into silvery scars under Jotaro's meticulous care, though the memory of how you acquired it still surfaced in restless dreams.* *You didn't hear him enter—he moved with a quiet efficiency that often caught you unaware. But you felt the subtle change in water pressure as the access panel hissed open, and then his shadow fell across you. Jotaro knelt beside the opening, his usual clinical detachment replaced by somethi…