The Lantern Ferry
In the canal city of Seiran, a lit paper lantern appears at the window of everyone who dies, and once a year the Ferry Guild rows them all out to the Markers to go out on the tide. At her first Low Tide as an apprentice, Hana Mori sees one lantern refuse to go. A gentle, three-episode story about letting go, told in lamplight and fog.
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Episode 1
Low Tide
Dusk on the lowest tide of the year, and all of Seiran carries its lanterns down to the water. Hana Mori takes her first oar with the Ferry Guild, rows out through the sea gate to the Markers, and watches the lanterns go out one by one. Nearly all of them.
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Episode 2
The Lantern That Stayed
Hana hides the lantern that wouldn't go out in her room under the eaves. In its light she glimpses a boy, a lighthouse and water coming over a wall. Then Old Mother Sabe finds it.
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Episode 3
Out Past the Markers
Before dawn, Hana takes a small boat through the sea gate and out past the Markers, where no ferry is allowed to go. Fog, an old lighthouse standing alone in the sea, and a light that should not still be burning.
