The Harvest of the Strait

One year after their wedding, Tuas Mega Port celebrated the official opening of Phase Two. The facility had become the undisputed technological marvel of global commerce—handling sixty-five million twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo annually with zero human accidents, fully guided by the calibrated acoustic bathymetric algorithms that Alana had extracted from the phosphor bronze cylinder. That evening, a private celebration was held on the panoramic terrace of the Sentosa villa.…