The Snow Queen
“It looks like a quart-size paint can, made of brushed aluminum, but unlike a paint can, its lid is clearly meant to be screwed off. No one had suggested trying it out before they got onto the ferry.
Tyler, Barrett, and Liz huddle together at the stern, leaning against the traffic-cone-orange iron railing (the harsh orange that signals emergency); huddled together in part because it’s windier and colder than they’d expected it to be, out in the harbor at night, even in April, but mainly because ...they don’t want to attract the attention of the blue-uniformed crew members (are they called crew members?), who are surely not looking out to see if anyone is illegally scattering ashes off the boat, but would just as surely intervene if they caught three passengers in the act.
Tyler struggles, as unobtrusively as possible, with the intractable lid.
Spread around them is the black, light-speckled toss of the harbor, with the ferry’s wake—gray-white, alive as smoke—furling out below. It is the most trafficked body of water imaginable.MoreLess
Tyler, Barrett, and Liz huddle together at the stern, leaning against the traffic-cone-orange iron railing (the harsh orange that signals emergency); huddled together in part because it’s windier and colder than they’d expected it to be, out in the harbor at night, even in April, but mainly because ...they don’t want to attract the attention of the blue-uniformed crew members (are they called crew members?), who are surely not looking out to see if anyone is illegally scattering ashes off the boat, but would just as surely intervene if they caught three passengers in the act.
Tyler struggles, as unobtrusively as possible, with the intractable lid.
Spread around them is the black, light-speckled toss of the harbor, with the ferry’s wake—gray-white, alive as smoke—furling out below. It is the most trafficked body of water imaginable.MoreLess
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