In the drydock basin of the Quincy shipyard, the ceremonial keel-laying of the *Cross Humanitarian* took place under a crisp November sky. Unlike commercial container carriers, this five-hundred-foot vessel had been commissioned by the Vance-Cross Foundation as the world's first zero-emission mobile hospital and disaster-relief ship. Thousands of shipyard workers gathered around the drydock basin as Elena and Adrian descended to the structural keelson. Elena knelt beside the massive center…
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