THE CHARACTERS

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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