The afternoon sun beat down on the teak decks of *The Obsidian Sovereign* as she sliced through the sapphire blue waters of the Ionian Sea, leaving a wide, foaming wake that stretched to the horizon. In the laboratory, Isla and Nikolai sat side by side at the stainless-steel console, reviewing high-resolution archival scans of European maritime shipping registries. "Tell me about Santorini," Isla said, leaning back in her ergonomic stool,…
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