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"You will restore," Marek said. The kraken tapped the water thrice. In answer waves rose small and obedient, carrying up clumps of kelp that had been stripped away. Hobb dove, hauling the living tangle back into the reef's gullies. The kraken watched him with unblinking patience. When Hobb emerged, coughing, the bruise on his conscience eased.
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Elias went to him, knees failing but steady. The boy smelled of kelp and something older; his small hand found Elias's with a grip that said more than any ledger.
Years later, when Elias was old enough to see his hands as maps of a life spent on salt, he would sometimes think of Marek and the strangers who had come like a small, fierce tide and gone. He would think of the bell, now silent and buried in memory, and wonder if the kraken slumbered, ledger closed for a while. He would also think of the price of forgetting: how easy it is to take what does not belong to you, and how costly the return can be.