The face of the waters undulated from calm to turbulent. When the bottom began to stir a bioluminescence phenomenon occurred: billions of microscopic single-celled marine organisms turned into an electric blue melee of glowing slime. Barrels, planks, an accordion, and more flotsam from the sunken galleon emerged on the solidifying lake. With a cocksure grin Locke reached for an intricately crafted sigil-engraved brazen skull, but a human cranium burst out like a jack-in-the-box from the phosphorescent flash mob of ooze in front of the fortune-telling mechanical prophet.

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