Some say Sarah Lumm – a wooden bride of the sea retired to a pub holding her name at Little Mary – cries salt tears of omen. Some say she weeps at the binding of the land. Most villagers agree they've woken with her dreams of faraway in their heads at some point.

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As a child I was shown a copy of a chart of the Hookland coast. The Bad Andrews' rocks, Ten-Tree Island, Sheldrake's Drop all annotated with sigils, apotropaic marks. It was deep magic. It bled into my soul. - Katherine Giddings

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