Day Four: Salt and sea were in his blood, and old traditions are sluggish to die.

drawing of a ship carved into meerschaum stoneDeep into the night under the same moon, the stevedore carved away at a piece of meerschaum, his replacement stone for scrimshaw bone. Salt and sea were in his blood, and old traditions are sluggish to die.

This is what he carved.

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