lady luck

Arne smiled at her tease, even laughing before he replied. I think bait works better with traps and lines, the current should sweep them right in with the way it’s set up, but if we hang around too long, I’ll get swept away and so will the net, so we’ll leave it until the water gets to… He stepped forward a few steps and drew a line in the sand about here, and then I’ll swim my side back and we should be able to drag it up… Already the top of the net was dipping and thrashing in the water, as though something was trying to push past the net and not quite making it. It looked like they would have something to eat, at least.

When the water reached the designated mark, surprisingly quicker than he had anticipated, he took up his side of the net again, walking a few steps forward of where it had been placed to make sure anything tangled in the lines would stay there and be corralled as he made the swim back to Fortune. It was harder work this time, the weight of the net and the strength of the incoming tide meant a much longer swim than before, but he could do it. It was fine.

As his feet found solid ground again, he put the net properly in his mouth and began to pull, eager to see what they had managed to snare in their net.

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