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| Problem | Symptom | Solution | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | White powder on leaves | Increase airflow; spray with milk/water solution (40:60). | | Slugs & Snails | Holes in young shoots | Use iron phosphate bait at dawn. | | Cyclamen Mite | Stunted, distorted growth | Destroy the plant. Do not compost. | | Crown Rot | Wilting despite wet soil | Improve drainage; replant in a raised bed. |

It was a shell, but not the kind tourists picked up and kept. This shell fit in her palm like a small, sleeping moon — pale, veined with a lattice of silver, and warm as if someone had just breathed into it. When she put it to her ear, she did not hear waves. She heard a voice that knew her name before she learned to say it: “Delphiniue.”

That night, Delphiniue walked the quay. She did not remember the precise syllables the stranger had taken, nor could she recall the exact moment she had traded. Yet she felt full of small, bright things: the taste of a bread crumb between her lips, the music of a child humming a tune she half-knew, the comfort of ropes that did not fray.

Her grandfather laughed, his hands gnarled like ship rope. “Then explain why no ship flying our flag has ever sunk, child.”