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Tiny Blue Marks
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Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. A swinging ship lantern lights a sailor's hammock below deck, casting long shadows on wooden beams in a dim, eerie atmosphere. in Gouache style

Tiny Blue Marks


You kneel beside Sam's hammock with your lantern. His skin is hot. Then you see it—a tiny blue dot on his neck, round as a pinprick.

You check the other sick sailors. Each one has the same blue mark. Your heart thumps. Sicknesses don't leave dots like paint. Someone did this. But who?


Search the captain's cabin for clues
Ask Old Bess, the cook, what she knows
Go Back

? Clues might hide in the captain's cabin—or in the cook's quiet kitchen.

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