Early design rough for rabuca — a being shaped after the frilled shark.
Before the skin settled, the body already knew how to collapse.

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Rabuca:
Moves minimally—usually prone or adrift.
Avoids eye contact, yet feels watched.
Six gill slits from neck to chest; breasts hang with gravity.
Legs too weak to stand.
Innocence and death quietly coexist in its presence.

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