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Salvage Rights

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Mara's light finds something worse than cargo. A Vares diver is already inside the hold, pressed into the shadows, watching her. He got here first through a second breach she never saw. He lifts one finger to his helmet: quiet.

Mara doesn't wait to find out what he wants. She kills her light and swims hard for the breach. He follows, faster than she expects, and grabs her fin. In the black they wrestle until she rips free and shoots up through the gash, lungs burning. She breaks the surface alone, alive, and swears she is never going down for that wreck again.

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