Chapter 29 - The Knots

Spade was very much satisfied with Serenica's negotiating skills as Innai agreed to spare some wood for their mast on the condition that the promise would be fulfilled and some food would be given to soothe the dreadful boredom of eating fish. Serenica watched their men take down a massive old tree and start the somewhat witchy repair process, but she couldn't be bothered with the details. She kept wondering about what Innai had meant and what supposed sins his daughter had committed to be punished so. She did know, though, that there was a secret space within her that had always made her feel like a total stranger, even with friends and family, like she was somehow more or less human than others. She couldn't name the feeling, she only knew she had always been full of primordial rage that had been there since the days when the earth was young.