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So, this is a story I heard long ago.
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In a little port town, there's a custom
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that's been passed down for generations.
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Before a new ship makes its maiden
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voyage, the locals prepare a small paper
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boat. And upon this boat, they place
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Paper sailors who bear the names of real
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men, the names of the crew on the new
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ship preparing to depart.
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So, the paper boat is sent out to sea.
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And being paper, it sinks quickly with
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all hands lost. But this is for the
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You see, the paper boat and sailors take
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the place of their namesakes, sparing
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the real crew misfortune and ensuring
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that the ship returns to shore safe and
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I should mention, by the way, that we
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observed this custom before launching
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the DHV Mellin. Better safe than sorry,
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right? In any case, this is what they
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had always done for every new ship in
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the Little Port Town and what they would
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do for the next. The first ship to be
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built there in quite some time, in fact.
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So, on this joyous occasion, everyone
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gathered to watch as the paper boat and
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its paper sailors sank into the sea.
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And the next morning, the real ship set
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A few days passed and then the ship
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To a man, the crew's faces were all
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Why so forlorn? The people asked.
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A sailor answered by simply pointing at
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the black mass upon the deck.
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the armless, legless, blood soaked
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corpse of the ship's captain.
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He had been swept overboard by a massive
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wave and torn apart by a ravenous shark.
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And after they pulled what remained of
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him onto the deck, they found hidden in
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his jacket pocket an armless, legless
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Someone had hated the captain with a
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Now that I think about it, I recall
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seeing something on your door just now.
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Something made of paper.
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Yeah. Yes. A little paper figure
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with Sam written on it.
