Serna Voss

Public — The Ferrywoman

Serna Voss has been thirty years on the rope. She crosses on the hour from dawn to dusk and not a minute past it, and she will tell you that is because of the current. She is paid in coin and in gossip, and sets more store by the gossip.

For Corvin

To Corvin Ash

You watched Serna cut her fishhook mark into the toll board, and she pressed hard enough to score the wood. Afterwards you turned the pages of the ferry log on the landing bench, and four of this season's marks barely dented the paper.