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A quiet life by the sea ends when someone wakes to a black serpent staring back at them from their chest. The memory of a forest that doesn't exist, a book that was never opened, and a voice that speaks without sound begin to unravel everything they thought was ordinary. Drawn from a salt-stained village into the deep wilds, caves, ruins, and hidden realms, they are sent to bargain with creatures that do not give anything for free. Each "blessing" cuts a little deeper, each test asks a sharper question: if the world handed you the power to move earth, bend flame, command water, and touch the edge of death itself... what would you do with it?