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He went to his tool kit to fetch a chisel. He intended to take a sample, to prove his find to the jewelers in Amsterdam. He didn't want the whole creature; he wanted the material. He wanted to carve her down into something wearable.

Until the Dutchman arrived.

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"Everything has a price," the Dutchman said, casting his net.

"They aren't fish," Silus warned from the dock. "They're the memory of the ocean. You can't catch a memory." He went to his tool kit to fetch a chisel

It wasn't a song with words. It was a sound of pressure, of crushing depth, of the silence found miles beneath the surface. The sound was beautiful, achingly so, but it carried a weight that flattened the reeds on the bank and shattered the lantern.

They weren't human eyes. They were solid black, like the depths of the trench. There was no iris, no white. Just an endless, consuming void. He wanted to carve her down into something wearable

He had a net made of silk and lead. He had a tackle box filled not with bait, but with diamonds—rough, uncut stones meant to catch the light. He set up his rig on the deck of the Lolita’s Sigh as the sun began to bleed into the horizon.