Mastbreaker silver teasing shadows into movement

teasing shadows into movement

tucked between the pages of a leather-bound grimoire

Beneath the vast expanse of the night sky

it is slight — a pause in her breath

her secrets wound into the silver links of a chain

Mastbreaker silver teasing shadows into movementThey said the wind followed him because it had nowhere else to go. Captain Ives never denied it. Never confirmed it either. Just stood at the prow with that jagged thing hanging from his neck, thumb hooked against it like it was part of the ships rigging. Winds dying, someone muttered once, low enough to pass for thinking out loud. Ives didnt turn. It isnt, he said. Its waiting. The crew learned not to argue with that. It was taken from a strike that