THE CHARACTERS
Janner Igiby
Age: 12
Favorite food: cheesy chowder
Hobbies: reading, journaling, yearning for adventure, wishing he could sail, and harboring irritation that he’s always having to look out for his siblings, whom he actually likes (and loves)
Tink (Kalmar) Igiby
Age: 11
Favorite food: food
Hobbies: sketching, asking when the next meal will be, outrunning his older brother while playing ships and sharks or zibzy
Leeli Igiby
Age: 8
Favorite food: henmeat soup
Hobbies: singing, playing whistleharp, tickling her dog (Nugget), proving to her brothers, both of whom she loves (and likes), that even with a crutch and a lame leg, she can keep up
Nia Igiby
Age: (it’s impolite to ask)
Favorite food: anything she didn’t have to cook
Hobbies: teaching her children their Three Honored and Great Subjects (T.H.A.G.S.), sitting on the porch at dusk with her father and listening to her kids playing in the field while wishing her husband hadn’t died in the Great War
Podo Helmer
Age: ancient
Favorite food: grilled glipperfish
Hobbies: shooting the breeze at Shaggy’s Tavern, gardening, catching thwaps, editing the morally questionable parts of stories of his pirate days while telling them to his grandchildren, missing his dear wife Wendolyn, who died in the Great War
Oskar N. Reteep
Age: agelessly ancient since he was a wee lad
Favorite food for the brain: books
Hobbies: cataloguing his many, many books, memorizing quotes on the off-chance he’ll be in a situation that will be suitably enriched by obscure authors’ pithy thoughts, adjusting his spectacles and combing his few remaining wisps of hair