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    For hundreds of years, the Cloud Recesses Marine Rehabilitation Center has protected the deepest, darkest secrets of the oceans and its inhabitants. It aids them when they are sick, injured, or in need of a re-homing.

    The CRMRC isn't a stranger to dangerous marine predators. It has housed everything from the nearly extinct Great Shark Jiaoren to a simple jellyfish.

    It hasn't prepared them for the arrival of an elusive Deep-Sea Jiaoren--a creature of legends.

    Once the Jiaoren’s black tail touches the sunlight, it burns with an under-layer of red. It gleams like a warning, like hidden rubies buried in the blackened scales. With each movement, the colors ripple like ombre. The tail is long and slim, sharpened black-ombre scales and spindly fins. It’s the longest tail Lan Wangji has ever seen. The caudal fin is long and with low drag, the epitome of a predator designed to hunt.

    Blood smears across its pale skin, irritated gills cutting along the sides of its ribcage. Those silvery-blue eyes are slitted pinpricks, teeth sharp and webbed hands bloody as it pulls itself across the dock with a powerful slap of its tail.

    A Deep-Sea Jiaoren.

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