Nineteen nights went into finding a channel no one has ever used. Come this dawn, no one will be standing where they memorized.

• ArnketilChange the channel, and courtesy says you change the shield-wall too. Next dawn, we meet at your gunwale, not the gravel.
  VilbaYour spear's always half a beat late. That's what happens when you don't count the tide.
• UlfridA channel that's never existed until now. Is a night with no knot for it about to begin?
  VilbaThe record-keeper's job is only to count. This one, you'll come up short.