As she logged the items, she realized these weren't goods. They were memories. The Beira do Cais wasn't just a port for ships; it was a collection point for things lost at sea. Every time a ship went down, the tide eventually brought the essence of what was lost back to her desk.

She was more than a secretary. She was the librarian of the deep, ensuring that even when the ocean took a life, it couldn't keep the soul. She tucked her pen into her pocket, breathed in the salt air, and waited for the next tide to bring her a new story to file.

The lantern above the door of "O Farol" flickered, casting long, rhythmic shadows across the stack of manifests on Clara’s desk. As the lead secretary for the Beira do Cais—the busiest wharf in the city—Clara was the gatekeeper of everything that entered and exited the harbor.

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