The Golden Harbor
The brass compass lay in Silas Vane’s palm, its glass cracked, the needle trembling against the north with a frantic, arrhythmic tick. It was a relic from a time when the sea was a ledger of debts, not a void of erasure. Silas, forty-five and heavy with the specific gravity of a man who has spent two decades fighting a tide that eats bone, sat on the edge of the *Aurora*’s salvage barge. The...
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