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The Lantern Coast — Ch 4 · Low Tide at Carrow

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Chapters

Part One12,711

Ch 1 · The Lamp Room3,412

Ch 2 · Salt Roads2,980

Ch 3 · The Ferryman’s Debt4,105

Ch 4 · Low Tide at Carrow2,214

(P) Ch 5 · The Ledgerplan

Part Twoplans

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pov · Mara Venndate · 14 March 1871status · draft

Low Tide at Carrow

The tide had gone out farther than Mara Venn had ever seen it, far enough to show the ribs of the old ferry and the road the drowned village used to walk to church.

“You said the lamps would be lit,” said Toby, and she didn’t answer, because the lamps were never meant for ships.

Plan · Toby finds out about the keeper’s ledger here, not in Ch 6. Keep the ledger’s last entry on the same day as the storm.

She opened the ledger to the last page and read the date twice. **Nobody had written in it since the storm.**

SyncedPart One / Ch 42,214 words · 9 min read

Outline

Low Tide at Carrow

The ferry ribs

The keeper’s ledger

Backlinks · 3

Mara Vennfirst reads the ledger in Low Tide at Carrow

Timeline · March 187114 Mar: the tide goes out at Carrow

(P) Ch 5 · The Ledgerfollows on from Low Tide at Carrow

Mentions

Mara Venn · 6Toby · 4Carrow · 3The ledger · 2

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