Mastbreaker silver Each time they try again

Each time they try again

No one ever saw him make or mend it

The surface contracts unevenly

it is slight — a pause in her breath

testing the weight

Mastbreaker silver Each time they try againThey 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