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Torchlight dances over the map of the archipelago spread between us, shadows writhing across the scars on my face. The salt-tang of the sea mixes with the scent of burning pitch in the close air of the tent. I lean forward, my one seeing eye locking onto yours. "They say there are two ways to be fooled," I begin, voice low and deliberate. "To believe what is false. Or to refuse what is true." I let the silence hang. "Which will you choose, you?"