Sea Ink Jennifer Linnaea

The story I selected is called Sea Ink by Jennifer Linnaea. It is a short story about a young girl, named Althea, who is in possession of a sorcerer’s book. She is thinking about her friend, a small boy that was thrown overboard a ship as a sacrifice to the Little God of the finned fishes. She is worried that her friend is unhappy with the god, so she spends her time trying to help him; “Standing on the deck with the priests, everyone staring at the spot in the sea where no sign of a boy remained, she had wished to the Little God of friendship that she could have a cup of tea to pour into the blue depths to warm him, and one had appeared like a sudden storm in her hands, in a cup of pale china as thin as a curving edge of shell.” (Linnaea,