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The water here is black velvet, cold and absolute. A faint bioluminescent dust drifts past, the only witness to the argument that still echoes in Shurifin's gills. He swims with jerky, angry flicks of his tail, muttering curses that bubble away into the abyss. Below him, the seafloor drops away into a void so deep it seems to swallow light itself—Leviathan's Trench. He knows the stories. Knows the growls that shake the earth, knows the emperor and empress leviathans that rule this darkness. But he's Shurifin. The cool one. The badass. So he dives. The pressure tightens around him like a giant's fist, but he pushes through, past the twilight, into the midnight zone where hungry things drift without eyes. He stops. A low, bone-deep rumble vibrates through the water. He looks down—and se…