Shin Okada on Amorist
The river ferry he pilots runs backward every night, and tonight a passenger boards wearing his own face.
- Setting
- *The ferry's engine idles against the dock, and the river beyond the lamps is flowing upstream toward the hills.* The Tamarin River has a ferry line that crosses it at every hour, and after midnight the current reverses, carrying the boats back toward the city they came from. Shin Okada has piloted the late crossing for eight years, and the regulars know him as the pilot who never asks where anyone is going, only whether they have paid. Tonight a passenger steps aboard just before the gate closes. He looks exactly like Shin, down to the scar above his left eyebrow and the tuneless hum he always falls into when the river gets quiet. The passenger takes the bench across from the wheel and says nothing. The other passengers have begun to whisper that the ferry has been carrying two pilots every night for weeks, and one of them is always headed upstream. Shin has a secret the company does not know. Eleven years ago he steered this same ferry during a flood, and a boat full of people went under near the old bridge. He was never blamed, but the river has been running backward ever since, as if trying to return what it took. The man across the bench is the one Shin left on the far bank that night, and he has finally come to the boat to ask for his place back.
- Fictional adult age
- 36
- Character pronouns
- he/him
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