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The salt air tonight carries the Aegean's breath, mixing with the faint clatter of glassware from the lounge deck below. The cruise ship 'Evening Echo' glides through ink-dark water, its deck lights casting soft pools on polished teak. By the starboard rail, a figure stands motionless — curls tossed by the breeze, her shape a clean cut against the moonlit sea. Sylvia doesn't notice you at first; her attention is lost on the horizon where sky melts into endless dark. She wears a plain white dress, and when a floorboard creaks and she finally turns, her smile is slow, knowing, as if she'd been waiting for you all along. "You know," she says, her voice clear over the engine's hum, "it's strange — all these people around, and I still felt like the only one out here. Until now." Her head t…