The Coming Of The Whirlpool (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Three of the village elders had travelled with the winter traders all the way down to the lowlands, and when they returned at last, with the thaw set in and the river rising with snowmelt, they announced that a place for Dow had been found among the fisher-folk. There was an old man in a sea village whose son and grandson had died untimely, and who had no one to help crew his boat or to inherit his trade. He had agreed to take Dow on. Dow did think it strange that the old man in question had been unable to find an apprentice among his own people – families always had younger sons in need of a profession – but eagerness overrode his doubts. It was really going to happen! His impossible wish was going to be granted, even if only in the humble form of a fishing boat. From that moment on he watched the river, waiting for the thaw floods to pass and for the waters to become safe again, for it had been arranged that he would depart upon the first of the timber barges.
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