A Saltwake tradition

Messages from the Tide

In Saltwake, wishes, confessions, and promises are sealed in glass and given to the sea. When a bottle returns to shore, they say it was meant to be found.

Port Shimmer · Saltwake
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✦ A message has found you. Tap the bottle.
The shore is quiet
✧ A little luck from the sea

What did the sea return?

Five Lucktide bottles have found their way to this shore. Call the tide, then open each message as it arrives.

A tiny interactive interlude from Salt Beneath Skin. All five messages are original bonus drafts.

A little more about Saltwake

What is Lucktide?

In the harbor city of Port Shimmer, some Saltwake residents send wishes, promises, confessions, and good-luck messages out to sea in sealed bottles. Most disappear with the tide. A bottle returned to the shore is said to have found the person meant to read it.

Messages from the Tide is an interactive bonus to the fantasy romance novella Salt Beneath Skin. Meet five voices from its world: ship physician Caspian Agare II, visiting doctor Kiarla Dimini, deckhand Naero, Captain Arseil, and harbor patrolman Vertel Maren.