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The fog did not merely obscure; it rearranged. Lantern light bent into soft threads that braided the air. Time thinned and thickened—hours could open like clams or slip away like fish. They met first with small impossibilities: flocks of fish that followed the boat like flipping coins, a lighthouse that hummed an old lullaby, constellations that rearranged to read messages for each traveler. The crew kept their wits by naming what they saw: “a night-market squid,� “the gull that tells riddles,� and so on. Names anchored things.