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“It’s worse than just poison on the surface. Kael’s navy used magic junk that turned seawater into acid for our people. Our dolphins bolted. Gills burned. It was a mess.”
She swept a webbed hand toward the battered harbor. The water shivered, little whirlpools blooming. “But whatever you did to purify things reached all the way down, bottom of the trenches, even. The sea remembers who cleans out the venom.”
Marcus edged closer, hungry for intel. “You got eyes on the other raider bases?”
“Three strongholds, Barren Isles,” Nereia shot back, all business. “Hidden in lava tubes. Surface ships? Useless there. Maybe thirty vessels, but crews don’t need to eat or sleep much. Dead men walking, prett