A Crown Cut with Salt
"Bruise three points port. He'll favour the milk, and we'll read the rim."
We slid along the safer edge, our keel a whisper. Nightjar angled into open water, relieved to stop pretending to be a river. When she found honest sea under her, she breathed, a small looseness in her lines, a swagger she couldn't help.
"There," Jas said softly, pointing starboard. A smudge where the horizon should have been a straight knife, low, flat, a dark breadcrumb from a world that eats ships: a cay, uncharted because no one wanted to put their name on a promise sand can break.
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