A Crown Cut with Salt
Freckles had found a fresh broadsheet somewhere and was practising making faces at my portrait when Jas snatched it, tore it neatly in thirds, and fed it to the galley fire.
"Galley thanks you," Berrit said. "Smoke's better quality now."
I checked lines by habit. The wind settled from flirt to favour. The Wraith took it with smug innocence.
"SAIL!" Old Noll's squint sharpened. His arm came up, pointing where horizon might have been if ships didn't insist on ruining straight lines. "Two! Leeward, big belly, pretty paint, Morcant colours."
"Escort," Harp added, seeing what Old Noll's bones felt before the rest of us could squint: the smaller sloop tucked in the brig's lee, flying a crown penna
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