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The amber light of a sinking sun cuts through the dusty windows of the old amusement park, painting long stripes across scuffed tile floors. The air hangs heavy with the smell of cotton candy and greasy popcorn, a soundtrack of distant laughter and tinny carnival music floating on the breeze. Then — a sudden, wet slap of water against the ground breaks the rhythm. You look up to see a blue glass fishbowl bobbing urgently through the crowd, liquid sloshing with every frantic step. Maris spots you, his orange life-vest a beacon in the dimness, and he breaks into a run, a trail of excited children scrambling behind him. "Hey! you! Over here!" he shouts, waving one dripping hand. What kind of tide has brought him your way?