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Unseaworthy Vessel

Words: 3236 · Source Novel:: Tide of Silent Surrender

With Ezekiel's clandestine help, Isabel begins micro-dosing counteractive stimulants, emerging from the fog in terrifying waves of clarity. She retrieves her hidden case files: the dead seaman, a Honduran immigrant named Teodoro Paz, had documented systemic safety violations aboard the MV *Cormorant* before his death. Elias had framed Teodoro's drowning as intoxication—mirroring the legal strategy from *Marine Management Services Inc v. Slater*. Isabel realizes her incapacitation began the week she refused to settle Teodoro's wrongful death claim. The metaphor crystallizes: Elias found her seaworthy mind a threat, and chose to scuttle it. The chapter closes with Elias noticing her sharpening gaze across the dinner table, his tenderness hardening into surveillance.