“Leave a small hope at the root-dock after dark. The wake that takes it will smell of moonflowers.”
Bloomwake's ferry runs all night and delivers hopes, not just seeds.
Bloomwake
Rare · One of 25
Warmly maternal and endlessly curious, Bloomwake ferries lost seeds, tadpoles and tired travellers across dark water in the curl of a flower-tipped tail, leaving a faint wake of pollen that glows until dawn.
Bloodline
III.
The Unbroken Road
The night was long, but it was never permanent.
Where he stands
The roads around him
The living story
The living story
The story so far
Bloomwake was born where a flooded forest met a river dock, in the hour when Gulletbloom's moonflowers opened and a biscuit barrel that Bilge had crossed oceans in bumped gently against the roots. The newborn slipped out of the barrel already grinning, shook river water from leaf-veined fur, and bloomed — a whole row of white flowers down a small back, opening one by one like lanterns being lit along a shore.
Happening now
Now Bloomwake keeps the night crossing: ferrying seeds, tadpoles, beetles and the occasional exhausted firefly across still blackwater in the curl of a flower-tipped tail. Travellers on both banks have started leaving tiny offerings at the root-dock — a crumb, a bright pebble, a secret — and Bloomwake delivers every one, plus a dusting of pollen, exactly where it was hoped for.
What may come
Word is spreading upriver and down into the Root-Deep that the crossing stays open all night and never charges. Something larger than a firefly is travelling toward the dock now, asking for a ferry it is not sure it deserves — and Bloomwake's blossoms have already begun opening for it, earlier each evening.
What others saw
Whispers about Bloomwake
“Count the blossoms on the small ferryman's back — there is one more tonight than there was last night.”
A new flower opens for every traveller Bloomwake is about to meet.
“The barrel at the dock is never empty. Something sleeps in it between crossings, breathing in time with the river.”
Bilge's old biscuit barrel is Bloomwake's home and first cradle.
Keep this Spark
Keep this spark
$15 · One of 25
Two bloodlines, one becoming — this spark was just born and its checkout is being minted. Keepers will claim it here the moment the ink dries.
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