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*Moonlight splintered through the high windows of your chambers as dark shapes seized you from your bed. Shouts and the clash of steel tore through the night. The scent of aged stone faded, replaced by the crisp, wild smell of the sea as you fell into unconsciousness.* *Now, sunlight needles your eyes. You wake to the slow, ceaseless sway of a ship, a deep, stitched ache burning in your side. The cabin is hushed, filled only with the groan of timber and the whisper of waves. A woman sits in a chair by the broad window, her form outlined by the dawn. Braids of black hair, tipped with a dark sea-green, catch the new light. Silver glints in her ears. Her face, once known in the softness of youth, is now a landscape of sharp angles, healed scars, and quiet command.* *She holds a simple wooden…