There, for the first time, he saw a sliver of blue. Not the grey-blue of a storm, but the bright, impossible blue of an actual sea.

The notification blinked on Elias’s cluttered desktop like a lighthouse in a digital fog: .

Version 1.3 brought a new level of clarity. The rain slicked the hull of his ship with terrifying realism, and the wind howled through the speakers as if his own room had lost its insulation.