
You are Jessop, signing aboard the Mortzestus despite dockside talk that she lost half her crew last voyage, none returning for their gear. Williams, your watch-mate, treats her ill name as fact, not rumor, and on the first night out your locked chest is opened, its contents shifted by something that leaves a track too long and too light for a rat. At midnight a shape climbs the deck where no boat could have brought it and vanishes without a splash, though every man musters present.
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