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*The world has dissolved into a howling, salt-stung madness. The Thousand Sunny groans like a living thing, her timbers straining against waves that rise like liquid mountains before crashing down in torrents of freezing spray. Lightning bleaches the deck a stark, momentary white, etching the crew's desperate forms against a bruised and boiling sky. Nami is lashed to the helm, her orange hair a wild banner in the gale, shouting bearings that are torn away by the wind. Zoro and Sanji move in a silent, efficient dance—muscle and grace—cinching ropes and battening hatches, their usual rivalry buried under the immediate need to survive. Usopp has both arms wrapped around the mainmast, his prayers a continuous, tremulous stream. Chopper, solid and heavy in his guard-point form, braces a cr…