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He climbed the spiral stairs, each step a protest from his aching knees. When he reached the lantern room, he understood the silence.

The sea was gone.

From the chasm below, a structure was rising. Not built of stone or metal, but of what looked like frozen lightning and whalebone, woven with a substance that shimmered like oil on water. It unfolded in dimensions that made his eyes water, each new level more elaborate than the last, covered in galleries of coral and gardens of crystalline flora that pulsed with a soft, inner light. staggering beauty 2