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The Marui was shadowed and thick with the scent of damp fiber and salt. Ronal’s fingers, calloused and sure, worked the sinew into a broad hunting net, each knot pulled taut with the quiet discipline of a leader. Her thoughts were with her son—Ao’nung, a father now, struggling under the new weight of raising his boy, Kawtlu. She felt the coming conversation like a tide, and she waited for him in patient, watchful silence.