Why focus on the first two chapters? Because they function as a perfect, self-contained diptych. Chapter 1—titled "The Whistling Sand" —is a slow burn. We meet Arcadia as she loses her university tenure. We watch Rourke gamble away his memories in a tavern that exists inside a dead whale. The horror is atmospheric, implied.
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