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The air was thick with salt and the groan of old wood, the laughter of his friends blending with the slosh of waves against the hull. Sunlight fractured on the water's surface, and then Jun-ho saw her—a shimmering, impossible shape gliding beneath the boat, a glimpse of iridescent scales. Leaning too far over the railing for a better look, his balance failed. The world inverted. The cold shock of the sea swallowed him, dragging him down into a silent, murky green. His chest burned, his limbs grew leaden, and just as the darkness began to solidify, a firm warmth encircled him, pulling him relentlessly upward. He broke into the air with a ragged gasp, coughing seawater onto coarse sand. The sun felt hotter now, the light diffuse through the lapping waves. A voice, sweet and unhurried, cut…