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Delphiniue woke to the sound of tide-bells — a chiming like glass beads rolling across a wooden floor. In the market of Narriport, sellers hawked salt-cured fish and ink-black maps, but Delphiniue moved through the crowd as if she carried the sea in her pocket. Her hair was the color of stormwater; her left hand always smelled faintly of kelp. People said she could coax a lost breeze back into a broken sail. They said many things. None of it prepared her for the thing she found on the beach that morning.

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Historically, it was used in very small, diluted doses as a topical treatment for neuralgia or rheumatism due to its numbing effect on the nerves. Delphiniue Delphiniue woke to the sound of tide-bells

That night, Delphiniue walked the quay. She did not remember the precise syllables the stranger had taken, nor could she recall the exact moment she had traded. Yet she felt full of small, bright things: the taste of a bread crumb between her lips, the music of a child humming a tune she half-knew, the comfort of ropes that did not fray. People said she could coax a lost breeze

she whispered to the empty pews. In her previous life, she had read this story to the end. She knew that the man currently waiting outside the heavy oak doors—the Grand Duke with eyes like shattered obsidian—wasn't looking for a savior. He was looking for a plaything to corrupt.

, the female serpent (drakaina) who guarded the site before being slain by Apollo. Modern Literary Context (Manhwa & Novels) "I Will Not Fall For The Villain's Flirtation":