Call of the Bone Ships (The Tide Child #2)

by R.J. Barker

flinders.

Good word

scintillating

Good word

inexorably

Good word

scabrous,

Good word

“Look in the mirror when you return to your cabin. Ask yourself if people can change, ask yourself if people can surprise you.”

incorporeal

Good word

suppurate.

Good word

“We are nothing, Shipwife,” she said. “If we do not try we are nothing. You are right there. Better to lose it all for what is right than to live in fear.”

“Maybe that is the true nature of prophecy – we can only change what is within our reach. So do not worry about the gullaime, do not worry about their prophecy. Hold close those you care for. Worry only about tomorrow, and the day after. Think not on the day after that for we fly a ship of the dead, and the Hag calls us all. To plan far ahead is to ask for the Maiden to thwart all you are. We live in the now. We fight for what we believe is right. We can do nothing else.”

“What I must do is hard enough, do not make it harder.”