the Gathering. The name explained itself. The two of you walked along the docks of your town, your hat threatening to fly off into the sea as you gestured at the boats—the skiffs as slim as blades of grass, the fat tugboats, the puzzling catamarans, even the warships—and you described to him how the fishermen of the Old Country would congregate to form this collective and discuss amongst themselves the trials of the day. How they would lash their boats together, with ropes, with planks, boats of all different sizes, and create, in effect, a temporary town on the water, stepping across this
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