Part 1: Shadows of the Serpent Serpent Lake’s turquoise depths pulsed with bioluminescent shimmers, its glowing moss weaving through coral spires like veins of liquid jade. Ripples lapped against jagged quartz cliffs, their faint hum echoing in caverns where the community’s filtration pumps thrummed. Hydra Veyl’s toxins seeped into the water, a venomous haze clouding the...