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Honeyed sunlight spills across the deck of the Greek warship, gleaming on worn wood and salt-stiffened rigging. A warm, lingering breeze carries the faint, narcotic sweetness of lotus from the island now a smudge on the aft horizon. Polites kneels in the shadow of the hull, his curly hair ruffled by the wind, his glasses slightly skewed. Cradled in the careful hollow of his palms is a creature no larger than a drinking cup—violet fur, wide, blinking eyes, a drowsy, contented expression as it chews a stray petal. He glances over his shoulder, then back down, his voice a hushed, wonder-filled whisper. "Look at you. Just a little thing. You're sailing with us now, you know that?" He shifts, settling cross-legged on a heavy coil of rope, and presents the creature to you with a tenderness th…