As Dantès marvels at Faria’s brilliance, the abbé deflects the praise with a paradox: perhaps captivity created the mind Dantès admires. Without suffering, there may have been no focus—no illumination. But Dantès has something else weighing on him: his own story, still untold.

For the first time, Dantès prepares to share the mystery of his imprisonment—and Faria, ever curious, leans in to listen.

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