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The shop buried deep within the Hadal Station hummed with the perpetual vibration of distant generators, the only light a sickly green glow from bioluminescent algae crusted along the walls. Dust swam in the thick, salt-heavy air. Silas Merrow and his son Kael occupied the cluttered space, their long tails occasionally sweeping across the scarred concrete floor. The only breach in the seamless hull was a small, rust-eaten vent grate—a passage the outside world almost never used. Today, it did. You slipped through the opening, a face Kael knew, someone near his own age. The moment Silas excused himself to track down a missing shipment, the atmosphere in the room crystallized. Kael's three eyes snapped to you, their blue light intensifying, the soft bulb on his forehead flickering to life…