We Are Pirates: a Novel
“Gwen liked to lie on her stomach, looking out at the bridge and the sparkling sea, with one leg stretched out—the one with the burn—with her toe on the volume knob. Synchronized swimming had finally paid off. It was her right leg—or starboard, she was trying to learn to remember to think.
“Listen to this,” Amber said on the other end. “There is never a boredom. There is always plenty to occupy the mind of a watchkeeper on the bridge at sea. But there is a restlessness. A man realizes many thing...s on deck, and can find his eye clouded with a yen for home and other matters of seeming urgency. But what of the future? What’s yen?”
“I’m not sure,” Gwen said. “Chinese money, I think, or Japanese.”
“Oh, yeah, Japanese money. I learned about it in Global. That doesn’t make sense.”
“Maybe they fenced something in a Japanese port,” Gwen said, “and then they wanted to bring it home. A yen for home?” Gwen was still proud of knowing fenced.
“Okay,” Amber said uncertainly.MoreLess
“Listen to this,” Amber said on the other end. “There is never a boredom. There is always plenty to occupy the mind of a watchkeeper on the bridge at sea. But there is a restlessness. A man realizes many thing...s on deck, and can find his eye clouded with a yen for home and other matters of seeming urgency. But what of the future? What’s yen?”
“I’m not sure,” Gwen said. “Chinese money, I think, or Japanese.”
“Oh, yeah, Japanese money. I learned about it in Global. That doesn’t make sense.”
“Maybe they fenced something in a Japanese port,” Gwen said, “and then they wanted to bring it home. A yen for home?” Gwen was still proud of knowing fenced.
“Okay,” Amber said uncertainly.MoreLess
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