"As the cold settled over her, Annaisha thought of those giant serpents slithering their gluttonous bodies along the ocean floor. Were they hungry for something different—for something bigger and warmer than cod or salmon? Had one swallowed Papa’s vessel in one gulp, emerging and disappearing at impossible speed? Maybe that’s why Papa hadn’t visited her for the Festival of Ghosts: he was trapped in the serpent’s cavernous stomach—now the doomed protagonist of his mythical tal